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Yes,
you're right, it's impossible.

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We must accept our lot in life.

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Life isn't beautiful,
but it can be pretty.

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Great passions
only last one night,

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the nicest breasts
only come in pairs

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and the most charming
are the least known.

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The bells are ringing,

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the lamps are lit...

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Here comes the music,

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and the party will begin again.

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Bravo!

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Bravo!

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Bravo!

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Don't leave
your seats.

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We have a surprise for you.

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Mr. Pagnol.

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Mr. Pagnol!

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Where is he?

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Oh! He is here!

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This way, monsieur.

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They're expecting you.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
the author of Fabien,

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Mr. Marcel Pagnol!

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- Bravo!
- Bravo!

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The Suez Canal crisis,

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people are struggling
to find petrol.

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We'll do better tomorrow.

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You can't blame
everything on the oil crisis.

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I guess this old Pagnol doesn't
interest people anymore.

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How dare you even say
such a thing?

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It's the youth
that drive the world, Pierre.

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Leave your father alone,
Frederic.

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Come. Fernandel has
a surprise for you.

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By the time you finished
smoking that pipe,

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the youth will have swept us

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-under the carpet.
-Hmm.

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And who could blame them?

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We did the same in our time.

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Gone are the times of accordion
waltzes, amusement parks,

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mahogany pipes.

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Mr. Lazareff,
one has to know when to bow out.

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Never! I will not let you
give up writing.

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My dear Helene,

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what's the point
of writing things

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that people no longer
wish to read?

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Marcel, you do know
the ladies magazine

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I'm in charge of, don't you?

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The magazine Elle.

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Elle?

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As it happens,
my readers love your work.

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And they want to know
all about you.

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Your childhood,

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early romances...

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So, for instance,
we could imagine

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somehow serializing it
in episodes.

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Possibly, say,

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on a monthly basis?

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Just a suggestion.

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Elle...

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Marcel?

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Still on that machine of yours?

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The Academy called again.
I'm out of excuses.

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Well, my darling,
you can tell them

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that one of their members
is on the brink

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of inventing perpetual motion.

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It's freezing in here.
You'd be warmer in your study.

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My study is full of paper
thirsting for ink.

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At least here, French literature
bloody well leaves me in peace.

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I have to go.

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I told the maid
you'd be up here.

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What is it?

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Sir, there's
a young man outside,

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who's here to pick up
a manuscript.

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A manuscript?

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For the magazine Elle.

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What should I say
to him?

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- You can say, uh...
- don't know.

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Tell him he'll have chapter one
in half an hour.

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I wasn't aware, sir,

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you'd started writing
your memoirs.

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Memoirs?

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-You'd need memory for that.
-Oh.

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Wait a minute.

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His wheel is buckled.

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You'll bring him tea,
and biscuits, and these pliers.

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I'll have at least three hours

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before he gets his wheel
straightened out.

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Three hours is a bit long
to fix a wheel.

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For most people, I would agree.

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But this young lad doesn't seem
very good with his hands.

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If I'm right, in three hours,
his wheel will be square.

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Pencil case

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Pagnol!

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Pagnol! Pagnol!

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Pagnol!

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Quicker!

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Easy for you to say.

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I'm sorry, my friends.
That doesn't help much.

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Pagnol, quicker!

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"I was born..."

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"I was born..."

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Well, yes, I was born.

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But they'll likely
want to know more.

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What came over me
to commit to this?

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You've never been
able to say no to a woman.

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Frederic?

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Why are you not in school?

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What? Son?

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Is that you?

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Whoa! Easy now!

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Marcel?

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Marcel?

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What are you playing at?

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Why have you come back, Marcel?

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I must have changed, eh?

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So, how old are we now?

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Sixty-one.

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Crikey, that's a shedload!

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What are you here for, Marcel?

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Well, with stirring up
our memories,

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you've only gone
and knocked me off the shelf.

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And I don't just want you
rambling on about us,

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because everywhere you've been,
I've been too.

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I'll have to invent some of it.

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My memory is like some
very old tape recording

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that has been half erased.

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Do you still believe
it's possible,

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a machine that will never stop?

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I don't know.

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But it helps me
get up in the morning.

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You don't sound too well.

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You don't understand.

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Old folks are like chimpanzees,

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swinging from branch to branch

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in constant pursuit
of their memories.

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What are you doing?

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Giving you a leg up.

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-Grandpa?
-Hmm?

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What's it like to be old?

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That's some question to ask,
my lad.

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When I grow up,
I want to be old like you,

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and carve stones like you do.

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It's not your trade
that'll matter.

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What matters
is that you work well,

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and that your craft
is beautiful.

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Because all that
is beautiful is true.

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And all that is true has earned
the respect of the divine.

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Your grandfather hated
preachers with a passion,

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and here he is,
sounding like a prophet.

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I opine that respect
is a very good thing,

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but it needn't come
from the divine.

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Our Republic
respects its children

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just as much as any god

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whose existence
has yet to be proven by science.

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You can tell that to people

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who are educated, like you.

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But those less clever,
well, God is enough for them.

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Furthermore,
this Republic of yours

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has never been proven
by science either.

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Well, you don't say!

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What does Marcel
want to be when he grows up?

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I don't know.

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You do know, Joseph.

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He told you he wanted
to become a millionaire

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and that made you angry.

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Augustine, I became angry

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because I do not know
a single honest millionaire.

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That's because you don't know

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any millionaires
in the first place.

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My dear Jules,
for a tiny minority to get rich,

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a huge majority
must be pushed into poverty.

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It's one of the basic laws
of nature.

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Marcel can be
whatever he wants.

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He told me
he wanted to become an engineer.

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In that case, he'll never
step out of his workshop,

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his complexion will be pallid,

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he'll have large bags
under his eyes,

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and he'll die a poor man,
addled with consumption.

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A poor man, but an honest man.

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Exactly my point, Jules.

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A poor man, but an honest man.

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I promise you, Mum,
one day I shall make you proud.

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I am already proud of you.

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You write me such lovely poems.

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They're nothing. You don't know
all the things I can do.

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And I can't wait
to discover them.

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My poor, dear Joseph.

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Life is but a tragedy.

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Why doesn't Mum come
and say goodnight anymore?

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We have to wait for her
to get better.

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When will she be better?

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Papa?

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Did she like my latest poem?

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My dear sweet boy,

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pay no mind to the naysayers.

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Life is not a tragedy at all.

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Life is full of beauty,
full of light and color.

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Like your poems,
that make me so happy.

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Once I've read them, I spread
them around me on the bed.

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Promise you'll write me
thousands more.

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00:11:11,170 --> 00:11:13,881
They'll be like a field
of flowers to me.

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To our Mama

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-When will Mummy come back?
-She'll never come back.

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00:11:30,106 --> 00:11:33,150
Marcel, what a dreadful thing
to say to your sister!

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Well, I'm angry!

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00:11:34,318 --> 00:11:35,945
But with whom?

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00:11:36,028 --> 00:11:37,154
With God,

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who made her so delicate.

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00:11:38,864 --> 00:11:41,075
With science, which failed
to give her strength.

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What is happening
to Marcel, Mum?

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He's growing up.

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00:11:57,633 --> 00:11:59,385
He no longer needs you around.

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What of the promise I made you?
Who'll keep it now?

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00:12:02,596 --> 00:12:04,682
What matters
is that you made it.

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00:12:04,765 --> 00:12:06,225
That's not good enough for me.

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00:12:06,308 --> 00:12:09,145
Believe me,
he will keep that promise!

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"The nanny-goat heard

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a rustling of leaves
behind her.

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"She spun around,

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"and made out a pair of short,
pointy ears in the shadows,

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"eyes that shone in the dark."

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00:12:23,743 --> 00:12:25,786
"It was a wolf!"

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00:12:26,787 --> 00:12:27,705
THE GOAT

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- Paul.
- What?

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00:12:29,331 --> 00:12:31,208
Must you read it out loud?

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00:12:31,292 --> 00:12:34,545
What about you,
how long will you keep writing?

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Mum always said
you'd wear your eyes out.

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00:12:36,630 --> 00:12:38,424
Well, you're not Mum.

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00:12:42,845 --> 00:12:46,223
What good are your poems,
if she's not here to read them?

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Go to sleep,
you're talking nonsense.

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Just as Our Lady

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watches over
the city of Marseille,

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I know Augustine
watches over us.

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00:13:20,466 --> 00:13:23,552
Madeleine is right.
Poetry is not a profession.

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-Why on earth not?
-I just know, and that is final!

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00:13:26,096 --> 00:13:27,640
You always know
better than everyone!

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00:13:27,723 --> 00:13:30,810
Marcel, at age 16,
one knows nothing of life.

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Adult-sized feet
notwithstanding!

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My feet are big enough
to kick your Madeleine's arse!

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Marcel!

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00:13:38,609 --> 00:13:40,820
Marcel!

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00:13:45,950 --> 00:13:48,118
Oh, easy now, boyo.

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00:13:48,202 --> 00:13:50,913
Leave the anger
in the locker room, I told ya.

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00:13:52,748 --> 00:13:55,543
Ya don't enter a ring
to settle your scores.

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00:13:55,626 --> 00:13:57,419
I told you already.

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00:14:01,257 --> 00:14:04,051
You have to leave your anger
in the locker room.

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00:14:07,596 --> 00:14:10,266
I shall be your schoolmaster

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00:14:10,349 --> 00:14:13,269
until the summer holidays
of 1922.

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00:14:13,352 --> 00:14:16,272
Please note, for those
whom I haven't met yet,

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00:14:16,355 --> 00:14:17,481
my name is...

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00:14:17,565 --> 00:14:19,149
Mr. Pagnol.

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00:14:19,233 --> 00:14:21,986
And I shall be
your Latin teacher.

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00:14:24,655 --> 00:14:27,283
Now...
What is my wife's name?

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00:14:29,201 --> 00:14:30,077
- Sir?
- Yes?

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00:14:31,579 --> 00:14:33,956
Schubert.

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00:14:34,039 --> 00:14:37,960
The question is,
"What is my wife's name?"

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00:14:38,043 --> 00:14:39,753
Me, sir, I know!

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00:14:39,837 --> 00:14:42,798
Her name is Simone.

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00:14:42,882 --> 00:14:44,675
Correct.

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00:14:45,342 --> 00:14:46,427
Great.

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00:14:52,391 --> 00:14:55,311
Oh, boy! There's no getting
famous at this rate.

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00:14:57,354 --> 00:15:00,274
Answer the door, darling.

263
00:15:05,112 --> 00:15:06,113
Simone!

264
00:15:06,196 --> 00:15:08,324
At last,
I got my Paris transfer!

265
00:15:08,407 --> 00:15:09,867
You'll turn it down though,
won't you?

266
00:15:09,950 --> 00:15:10,951
Why would I?

267
00:15:11,035 --> 00:15:12,578
All of your colleagues have.

268
00:15:12,661 --> 00:15:14,371
Paris, Simone!

269
00:15:14,455 --> 00:15:16,999
We're off to Paris,
where everything is possible!

270
00:15:17,082 --> 00:15:20,419
That'll be all
for today, Jeannette.

271
00:15:20,502 --> 00:15:22,796
Have you thought what
your father will have to say?

272
00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:24,798
Who cares what he has to say!

273
00:15:24,882 --> 00:15:26,967
He hasn't even spoken to me
since our wedding.

274
00:15:32,806 --> 00:15:34,600
You can still
give lessons in Paris.

275
00:15:37,645 --> 00:15:38,646
Paris!

276
00:15:38,729 --> 00:15:41,190
Paris, here we come!

277
00:15:47,321 --> 00:15:49,823
Its chic and friendly society.

278
00:15:49,907 --> 00:15:52,242
Its warm and attentive waiters.

279
00:15:52,326 --> 00:15:53,869
Its artists,

280
00:15:53,953 --> 00:15:55,329
restrained and sophisticated.

281
00:15:55,412 --> 00:15:56,622
Paris is a charm.

282
00:15:56,705 --> 00:15:58,123
Paris is a party.

283
00:15:58,207 --> 00:15:59,917
Paris is love.

284
00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,211
Paris will always be Paree!

285
00:16:02,294 --> 00:16:05,255
A mere 15 hours from Marseille,

286
00:16:05,339 --> 00:16:06,799
thanks to the new

287
00:16:06,882 --> 00:16:09,259
Paris-Lyon-Marseille
express train.

288
00:16:09,343 --> 00:16:10,678
Paris awaits you!

289
00:16:10,761 --> 00:16:13,639
So, Paris awaits us?

290
00:16:13,722 --> 00:16:16,642
For the time being, it's rather
us waiting for Paris.

291
00:16:16,725 --> 00:16:18,477
Excuse me.

292
00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,980
The train's been stopped in Lyon
for two hours.

293
00:16:21,063 --> 00:16:22,690
When will it leave for Paris?

294
00:16:22,773 --> 00:16:24,441
Quite the comedian, eh?

295
00:16:25,442 --> 00:16:26,777
What's written on that wall?

296
00:16:26,860 --> 00:16:29,154
LYON STATION

297
00:16:29,238 --> 00:16:30,531
Uh, "Lyon Station."

298
00:16:30,614 --> 00:16:32,866
And where's
Lyon Station situated?

299
00:16:32,950 --> 00:16:34,868
Well, Lyon Station is in Lyon.

300
00:16:34,952 --> 00:16:37,037
Ah! No, it ain't, my dear sir.

301
00:16:37,121 --> 00:16:39,665
Lyon Station
is situated in Paris.

302
00:16:39,748 --> 00:16:42,793
Peasants!

303
00:16:45,045 --> 00:16:47,006
PARIS-LYON STATION

304
00:16:49,758 --> 00:16:51,885
Well done, Pagnol!

305
00:16:55,305 --> 00:16:57,683
LYON STATION

306
00:17:04,606 --> 00:17:07,443
NO VACANCIES

307
00:17:10,654 --> 00:17:13,073
no vacancies!

308
00:17:14,825 --> 00:17:16,452
Outta the way, you mop!

309
00:17:16,535 --> 00:17:19,705
-Beg your pardon, sir.
-Bloody bumpkins!

310
00:17:19,788 --> 00:17:21,874
We're fully booked.

311
00:17:21,957 --> 00:17:23,709
This place too?

312
00:17:23,792 --> 00:17:26,920
How 'bout that? We can't be
sleeping under a bridge.

313
00:17:27,004 --> 00:17:28,964
"How 'bout that?"

314
00:17:29,048 --> 00:17:31,258
What do you want me
to do about it?

315
00:17:31,341 --> 00:17:35,262
"Fully booked"
means fully booked.

316
00:17:35,345 --> 00:17:38,724
What possessed you
to come to Paris anyway?

317
00:17:38,807 --> 00:17:40,809
What with the housing crisis
and all,

318
00:17:40,893 --> 00:17:43,353
you're better off down South.

319
00:17:43,437 --> 00:17:45,355
Paris, Marcel, Paris.

320
00:17:45,439 --> 00:17:47,399
"Where everything's possible"!
Hmm?

321
00:17:47,483 --> 00:17:50,569
Oh. Go on, luv,
don't be a misery guts.

322
00:17:50,652 --> 00:17:52,654
Give them room 67.

323
00:17:52,738 --> 00:17:54,656
What about Bertha?

324
00:17:54,740 --> 00:17:58,535
Off to the countryside,
to nurse herself back to health.

325
00:17:58,619 --> 00:18:00,746
Not bloody likely
to be back soon,

326
00:18:00,829 --> 00:18:01,997
the state she's in.

327
00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:03,457
Top floor,

328
00:18:03,540 --> 00:18:05,667
all the way down the hall.

329
00:18:05,751 --> 00:18:07,044
Thank you, madame.

330
00:18:08,420 --> 00:18:11,715
Welcome to Paree,
you couple of lovebirds!

331
00:18:13,342 --> 00:18:15,511
This Paris of yours
is just shit.

332
00:18:15,594 --> 00:18:17,930
But there's an energy here.

333
00:18:18,013 --> 00:18:19,681
It's hard to describe, really.

334
00:18:19,765 --> 00:18:22,476
Like a force
that swells up from the ground.

335
00:18:22,559 --> 00:18:24,561
Good job something
comes from the ground.

336
00:18:24,645 --> 00:18:26,814
'Cause from the sky,
it's all water!

337
00:18:26,897 --> 00:18:28,607
Look at this. Look!

338
00:18:30,609 --> 00:18:32,986
You'd never see that
in Marseille.

339
00:18:33,070 --> 00:18:34,655
Things are gonna get better.

340
00:18:35,948 --> 00:18:37,741
That's a promise.

341
00:18:48,919 --> 00:18:50,879
CONDORCET HIGH SCHOOL

342
00:18:59,721 --> 00:19:02,683
My wife

343
00:19:05,811 --> 00:19:07,354
Impromptu No. 3 with Variations,
Op. 142 (1st Part) - (Schubert)

344
00:19:11,650 --> 00:19:13,110
This way, sir!

345
00:19:14,945 --> 00:19:16,155
Quickly!

346
00:19:16,905 --> 00:19:18,157
Whoa there, my lad!

347
00:19:20,367 --> 00:19:22,119
-Paul?
-Hmm?

348
00:19:22,202 --> 00:19:25,080
-Paul Nivoix! I never!
-Pagnol!

349
00:19:25,164 --> 00:19:27,249
-My word!
-What are you doing here?

350
00:19:27,332 --> 00:19:29,293
-I live in Paris.
-Around here?

351
00:19:29,376 --> 00:19:31,378
No, it's that little lad
brought me here.

352
00:19:31,461 --> 00:19:33,630
He kept telling me
he'd lost his way.

353
00:19:35,299 --> 00:19:37,467
Hey, what did you do
with your accent?

354
00:19:37,551 --> 00:19:39,887
Left it back home
in Marseille.

355
00:19:39,970 --> 00:19:42,014
I was afraid
it would get rusty in the rain.

356
00:19:47,603 --> 00:19:49,688
Paul will introduce us,
Simone,

357
00:19:49,771 --> 00:19:51,481
to intellectuals,
the theater crowd.

358
00:19:51,565 --> 00:19:53,066
The theater crowd?

359
00:19:53,150 --> 00:19:55,360
A right bunch of hussies
and alcoholics!

360
00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:03,202
And those filthy pigeons!
I can't stand them anymore!

361
00:20:15,923 --> 00:20:17,549
What do you want?

362
00:20:17,633 --> 00:20:20,510
Turn down that racket, or
I'll be sending for the coppers!

363
00:20:20,594 --> 00:20:23,639
Oh, Pagnol!

364
00:20:23,722 --> 00:20:25,224
Now the party can start.

365
00:20:27,517 --> 00:20:31,021
Marcel Pagnol, you'll be
hearing that name, old fart.

366
00:20:40,697 --> 00:20:42,324
This is where it happens.

367
00:20:42,407 --> 00:20:44,910
Allow me to introduce
Orane Demazis,

368
00:20:44,993 --> 00:20:46,286
an immense actress.

369
00:20:46,370 --> 00:20:48,121
But not in size!

370
00:20:49,331 --> 00:20:50,332
What's that?

371
00:20:50,415 --> 00:20:51,959
Do I look like the pope?

372
00:20:52,042 --> 00:20:54,127
Marcel is from
my home town, darling.

373
00:20:54,211 --> 00:20:55,712
And what does he do
for a living,

374
00:20:55,796 --> 00:20:57,464
this home-grown Marcel?

375
00:20:57,547 --> 00:20:59,258
-He is a teacher of Lat...
-I am a writer.

376
00:20:59,341 --> 00:21:00,926
I love how he said that.

377
00:21:01,009 --> 00:21:04,179
Such a good little boy.

378
00:21:04,263 --> 00:21:08,183
Here now, this will grow you
some more, home-grown Marcel.

379
00:21:10,852 --> 00:21:12,145
My dear Marcel,

380
00:21:12,229 --> 00:21:13,647
no one gives a hoot about

381
00:21:13,730 --> 00:21:15,816
your ancient
Greece-inspired tragedies.

382
00:21:18,402 --> 00:21:20,654
And you're quite right.

383
00:21:20,737 --> 00:21:24,283
Catullus be damned,
and Ulysses, and Nausicaa!

384
00:21:25,951 --> 00:21:29,162
Paul, you and I
will co-write a vaudeville.

385
00:21:29,246 --> 00:21:31,498
Now you've decided
to upset your father.

386
00:21:31,581 --> 00:21:33,458
Here's to Marcel Pagnol,

387
00:21:33,542 --> 00:21:35,460
the picture-perfect little boy

388
00:21:35,544 --> 00:21:37,921
who finally tells his daddy
to get stuffed.

389
00:21:38,005 --> 00:21:39,715
Get stuffed, Daddy!

390
00:21:46,096 --> 00:21:47,723
You no longer like it?

391
00:21:47,806 --> 00:21:50,267
"Jojo," the title itself
is ludicrous.

392
00:21:50,350 --> 00:21:53,854
What were we even thinking?
It's a sheer vulgarity.

393
00:21:53,937 --> 00:21:55,731
So you fear
your father's reaction?

394
00:21:55,814 --> 00:21:59,067
Not at all. I just want nothing
to do with this drivel.

395
00:22:00,110 --> 00:22:01,486
You can claim sole authorship.

396
00:22:03,363 --> 00:22:05,282
Too late.

397
00:22:05,365 --> 00:22:06,992
It's registered
at the Writers' Guild.

398
00:22:07,075 --> 00:22:09,161
Your name is now Castro.

399
00:22:10,245 --> 00:22:11,788
Why Castro?

400
00:22:11,872 --> 00:22:15,334
Uh, I just chose him
a pseudonym.

401
00:22:15,417 --> 00:22:17,169
It's short and,
well, it's dignified.

402
00:22:17,252 --> 00:22:18,754
You find it dignified?

403
00:22:18,837 --> 00:22:22,174
Corneille, "El Cid,"
Guillen de Castro.

404
00:22:22,257 --> 00:22:24,051
I'll confess,
it's just what came to mind.

405
00:22:24,134 --> 00:22:26,011
Some mind!

406
00:22:35,687 --> 00:22:37,189
The pigeons.

407
00:22:37,272 --> 00:22:40,650
Jojo played
20 straight nights in Marseille.

408
00:22:40,734 --> 00:22:42,819
Daddy Pagnol
didn't even know who wrote it.

409
00:22:42,903 --> 00:22:44,404
Goes without saying.

410
00:22:44,488 --> 00:22:47,824
And our dear Mr. Castro here
was duly flabbergasted.

411
00:22:47,908 --> 00:22:49,743
And no less overjoyed,
I might add.

412
00:22:49,826 --> 00:22:52,913
Mr. Castro received
700 francs in royalties,

413
00:22:52,996 --> 00:22:56,833
which would buy about 150 meals
in a restaurant like this.

414
00:22:56,917 --> 00:22:59,503
-Will you be writing another?
-We even have a theme.

415
00:22:59,586 --> 00:23:02,089
-And it's highly explosive.
-The war!

416
00:23:02,172 --> 00:23:04,174
Well, there's a laugh!

417
00:23:04,257 --> 00:23:06,885
Cream of Paris is here.

418
00:23:06,968 --> 00:23:09,888
We said "no politicians."
They came by the bucketload!

419
00:23:09,971 --> 00:23:12,682
-Members of Parliament!
-So what?

420
00:23:12,766 --> 00:23:14,893
So it's the end of us.

421
00:23:14,976 --> 00:23:17,729
You know,
my son was a humble sort.

422
00:23:17,813 --> 00:23:20,107
What do you expect
from reading his letters?

423
00:23:20,190 --> 00:23:21,817
That he speak like a hero.

424
00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:24,694
I have just the thing for you.

425
00:23:24,778 --> 00:23:27,239
"My friend Thibon,
a sergeant like me,

426
00:23:27,322 --> 00:23:29,908
"was killed yesterday,
a bullet through the head.

427
00:23:29,991 --> 00:23:32,411
"He died honorably, as a hero,
for the motherland."

428
00:23:32,494 --> 00:23:34,204
Oh! Bravo! Bravo!

429
00:23:34,287 --> 00:23:36,123
"What a joke!

430
00:23:36,206 --> 00:23:39,000
"That's the way they trick us.
He died, and that's it.

431
00:23:39,084 --> 00:23:42,170
"As for myself, I'm so appalled
by this senseless bloodshed

432
00:23:42,254 --> 00:23:43,630
"that I come to envy him.

433
00:23:43,713 --> 00:23:45,715
"Yes, I would like
to be in his shoes."

434
00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:48,218
Started well enough,
but the ending stank!

435
00:23:51,513 --> 00:23:55,392
And to think that it was less
successful than Jojo.

436
00:23:55,475 --> 00:23:57,310
I'm crushed.
The reviews were good,

437
00:23:57,394 --> 00:23:58,437
but the audience stayed away.

438
00:23:59,771 --> 00:24:02,190
I am convinced
that you will make it.

439
00:24:02,274 --> 00:24:03,608
Thank you, madame.

440
00:24:05,235 --> 00:24:07,821
- Do you know that boy?
- Which boy?

441
00:24:07,904 --> 00:24:09,656
A little boy
who looked like you.

442
00:24:09,739 --> 00:24:11,032
With a prettier nose, though.

443
00:24:11,116 --> 00:24:13,994
Hmm.

444
00:24:22,002 --> 00:24:23,753
Goodbye, Castro.

445
00:24:23,837 --> 00:24:26,506
Not "Pagnol"?
"Until we meet again"?

446
00:24:26,590 --> 00:24:29,301
Pagnol?
I don't know him anymore.

447
00:24:29,384 --> 00:24:31,344
Simone, please don't go.

448
00:24:31,428 --> 00:24:34,347
I've secured unpaid leave
from the Education Authority.

449
00:24:34,431 --> 00:24:37,559
If writing doesn't work out,
then, I can teach again.

450
00:24:37,642 --> 00:24:39,144
And be miserable
with your blackboard

451
00:24:39,227 --> 00:24:40,937
for the rest of your life?

452
00:24:41,021 --> 00:24:43,648
I won't live
with an embittered country boy,

453
00:24:43,732 --> 00:24:46,109
locked up in his
big-city mousehole.

454
00:25:12,719 --> 00:25:15,597
When will you resume
teaching at secondary school?

455
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,808
That can wait.
I'm writing again.

456
00:25:18,892 --> 00:25:20,519
On my own now.

457
00:25:20,602 --> 00:25:22,896
A literary play.
I think you'll like it.

458
00:25:22,979 --> 00:25:25,315
-Let me guess. "Gigi"?
-"Gigi"?

459
00:25:25,398 --> 00:25:27,317
Of course. After Jojo,

460
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,653
the next logical step
should be "Gigi."

461
00:25:31,112 --> 00:25:32,864
"Phaethon"!

462
00:25:32,948 --> 00:25:35,784
The title is "Phaethon."

463
00:25:35,867 --> 00:25:37,786
The Greek mythological figure.

464
00:25:37,869 --> 00:25:41,623
-The son of Helios and Clymene?
-Precisely.

465
00:25:41,706 --> 00:25:44,251
-Do you like it?
-Well, that is progress.

466
00:25:44,334 --> 00:25:46,002
At least it has
a classical flavor.

467
00:25:49,089 --> 00:25:50,382
Classical.

468
00:25:50,465 --> 00:25:51,550
Classical.

469
00:25:57,347 --> 00:25:58,765
So you want classical?

470
00:26:04,479 --> 00:26:05,814
All bets are off.

471
00:26:08,108 --> 00:26:09,693
You are
a strange man.

472
00:26:10,819 --> 00:26:13,154
Your play is being performed,

473
00:26:13,238 --> 00:26:16,700
and yet here you are,
losing your money.

474
00:26:16,783 --> 00:26:19,953
These chips were given to me
by the director of the theater.

475
00:26:20,036 --> 00:26:22,581
He couldn't stand me
biting my nails backstage.

476
00:26:22,664 --> 00:26:24,457
Fifteen, black...

477
00:26:24,541 --> 00:26:27,669
odd and low bet.

478
00:26:27,752 --> 00:26:30,088
You're the
anxious type, aren't you?

479
00:26:30,171 --> 00:26:32,882
I know plenty of ways
to relax a man.

480
00:26:34,593 --> 00:26:37,596
Mr. Pagnol, you must come back,
it's almost over.

481
00:26:37,679 --> 00:26:38,763
Place your bets.

482
00:26:41,182 --> 00:26:42,267
All on red.

483
00:26:49,441 --> 00:26:51,276
Oh, my dear friends,

484
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,320
please forgive me.

485
00:26:53,403 --> 00:26:55,864
You are the heart of o,

486
00:26:55,947 --> 00:26:58,658
the highest nobilityour,

487
00:26:58,742 --> 00:27:01,661
the eternal beauty of life.

488
00:27:01,745 --> 00:27:04,497
For there is only thought.

489
00:27:13,548 --> 00:27:16,468
Pagnol, it's your lucky day!

490
00:27:16,551 --> 00:27:18,553
Mr. Pagnol, the red! You won!

491
00:27:18,637 --> 00:27:20,805
Call it a lucky streak.

492
00:27:20,889 --> 00:27:22,265
- Bravo!
- Bravo!

493
00:27:22,349 --> 00:27:25,143
You invited your father.
Did he enjoy it?

494
00:27:25,226 --> 00:27:28,021
Go on, then.

495
00:27:28,104 --> 00:27:30,065
"The writing is quite good,

496
00:27:30,148 --> 00:27:31,858
"there's no doubt about that,

497
00:27:31,941 --> 00:27:34,277
"but I do have
a nagging little question."

498
00:27:34,361 --> 00:27:35,737
Oh, please.

499
00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:38,073
"How do you manage
to make a living?"

500
00:27:39,741 --> 00:27:41,910
He's only acting that way
because he loves you.

501
00:27:41,993 --> 00:27:44,287
And I am
quite fond of him myself.

502
00:27:44,371 --> 00:27:47,123
-Marcel.
-Hmm?

503
00:27:47,207 --> 00:27:49,751
Don't you ever miss Marseille?

504
00:27:49,834 --> 00:27:51,795
You have no idea
how much.

505
00:27:51,878 --> 00:27:53,755
So why don't you put your mind
to writing a play

506
00:27:53,838 --> 00:27:56,091
that's set back
in your home town, then?

507
00:27:56,174 --> 00:27:57,801
Be serious, Orane.

508
00:27:57,884 --> 00:28:00,303
Marseille without the accent
wouldn't be Marseille.

509
00:28:00,387 --> 00:28:02,472
But that's the point,
you silly old coot!

510
00:28:02,555 --> 00:28:04,432
You need to write it
like a local.

511
00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:06,685
No one would understand a word.

512
00:28:06,768 --> 00:28:08,561
The Belgians got away with it.

513
00:28:08,645 --> 00:28:10,897
If the Belgians can do it,
why can't you?

514
00:28:10,980 --> 00:28:14,109
The Belgians?
What about the Belgians?

515
00:28:14,192 --> 00:28:15,026
He was really

516
00:28:15,110 --> 00:28:16,319
kicking at my nose.

517
00:28:16,403 --> 00:28:18,279
Fool me once,
you won't fool me again!

518
00:28:18,363 --> 00:28:19,489
What did he answer?

519
00:28:19,572 --> 00:28:20,824
He was tongue-tied.

520
00:28:20,907 --> 00:28:22,575
Finally he says,
"Is your lancet uniform

521
00:28:22,659 --> 00:28:23,410
"not a bit tight
about the collar, sir?"

522
00:28:23,493 --> 00:28:24,786
What?

523
00:28:24,869 --> 00:28:26,538
"You seem quite red
in the face."

524
00:28:28,873 --> 00:28:30,875
How much for the typewriter?

525
00:28:30,959 --> 00:28:32,711
Oh! Not worth a penny.

526
00:28:32,794 --> 00:28:34,129
The bell has a mind of its own.

527
00:28:35,130 --> 00:28:36,548
I'll take it.

528
00:28:36,631 --> 00:28:38,425
Now, my dear, I will teach you

529
00:28:38,508 --> 00:28:41,010
how to chime in the lingo
of my beloved Marseille.

530
00:28:42,846 --> 00:28:44,806
As the curtain rises,

531
00:28:44,889 --> 00:28:47,559
Escartefigue peers down
at his cards

532
00:28:47,642 --> 00:28:50,061
and scratches his head...

533
00:28:50,145 --> 00:28:52,230
I'm currently writing
two stage plays.

534
00:28:52,313 --> 00:28:53,648
Oh? Is that all?

535
00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:56,443
Mr. Pagnol has quite
an appetite, I see.

536
00:28:56,526 --> 00:28:58,778
Two very different plays.
One is set in Paris...

537
00:28:58,862 --> 00:29:00,238
Wait, wait, wait, wait!

538
00:29:00,321 --> 00:29:01,698
Not so fast.

539
00:29:01,781 --> 00:29:04,075
-The title, huh?
-Um,

540
00:29:04,159 --> 00:29:06,411
-"Beauty and the Beast."
-Not exactly ground-breaking,

541
00:29:06,494 --> 00:29:08,913
but please, do continue.

542
00:29:08,997 --> 00:29:10,874
The other is set
in the South of France.

543
00:29:10,957 --> 00:29:12,834
-It doesn't yet have a title.
-Ah!

544
00:29:12,917 --> 00:29:16,087
The South of France!
Magnificent!

545
00:29:16,171 --> 00:29:19,174
-You've been to Marseille?
-I've heard about it.

546
00:29:19,257 --> 00:29:20,967
I saw a revue at the Alcazar,

547
00:29:21,050 --> 00:29:23,636
in Marseille,
featuring local actors.

548
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,096
And what was your impression?

549
00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:26,055
Here's your coffee, sir.

550
00:29:26,139 --> 00:29:27,056
Very peculiar.

551
00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:28,475
Many thanks.

552
00:29:28,558 --> 00:29:30,685
-Peculiar?
-Peculiar, yes.

553
00:29:30,769 --> 00:29:32,687
These people
are undeniably talented,

554
00:29:32,771 --> 00:29:35,648
but their speech
is incomprehensible.

555
00:29:35,732 --> 00:29:38,485
-Like the Belgians?
-Worse than the Belgians.

556
00:29:38,568 --> 00:29:40,653
Far worse than the Belgians!

557
00:29:42,489 --> 00:29:44,073
It's a silly idea.

558
00:29:44,157 --> 00:29:45,784
It'll never work.

559
00:29:52,499 --> 00:29:53,833
Sorry, my love.

560
00:29:55,376 --> 00:29:57,629
And so long, Marseille.

561
00:29:57,712 --> 00:29:59,923
Spare a thought
for your teaching colleagues,

562
00:30:00,006 --> 00:30:01,758
covered in chalk dust
from head to toe,

563
00:30:01,841 --> 00:30:03,384
slaving at the blackboard.

564
00:30:03,468 --> 00:30:05,678
And you, you're on your way
to the beach house

565
00:30:05,762 --> 00:30:07,931
of one of the prettiest women
in Paris.

566
00:30:08,014 --> 00:30:10,600
Prettier than her dog,
that's for sure.

567
00:30:10,683 --> 00:30:12,560
What breed is it, anyhow?

568
00:30:12,644 --> 00:30:15,396
He's as big as a donkey,
with a head like a cow.

569
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,817
She invited us. I couldn't
refuse to bring her dog along.

570
00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:21,277
Talking of beauties and beasts,
you were on act two.

571
00:30:21,361 --> 00:30:24,072
Oh! No, that's revolting!

572
00:30:24,155 --> 00:30:26,741
He likes your play.
Carry on.

573
00:30:27,617 --> 00:30:28,952
Act two.

574
00:30:29,035 --> 00:30:30,995
-Marcel.
-Yes?

575
00:30:31,079 --> 00:30:34,290
The schoolmaster in your play,
stiff and incorruptible.

576
00:30:34,374 --> 00:30:35,875
That's your father, yes?

577
00:30:35,959 --> 00:30:38,086
Easy in the bends,
the dog's a bit out of sorts.

578
00:30:41,130 --> 00:30:42,841
That is rather unsafe.

579
00:30:43,925 --> 00:30:47,220
-Go by train?
-Go by train.

580
00:30:47,303 --> 00:30:50,181
After all that,
I forget where I was in act two.

581
00:30:50,265 --> 00:30:52,809
Towards the end, when Topaze
comes to visit his friend.

582
00:30:52,892 --> 00:30:55,228
Topaze? Who's Topaze?

583
00:30:55,311 --> 00:30:57,981
The old teacher who stayed
at the boarding school.

584
00:30:58,064 --> 00:31:00,525
-Oh, you mean Tamise?
-Yes, of course, Tamise.

585
00:31:01,442 --> 00:31:03,278
What did I say?

586
00:31:03,361 --> 00:31:05,113
From 10:30 this morning,

587
00:31:05,196 --> 00:31:07,156
you are no longer part
of our teaching staff.

588
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,617
Come on, now, you fool.
Come on, I say!

589
00:31:09,701 --> 00:31:11,077
Headmaster...

590
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:12,662
Muche.

591
00:31:12,745 --> 00:31:14,414
Headmaster Muche!

592
00:31:14,497 --> 00:31:16,958
An actor fluffs his lines,
the sets are unfinished,

593
00:31:17,041 --> 00:31:19,252
and the bookings
haven't yet started.

594
00:31:19,335 --> 00:31:21,588
Bit of a bad omen, isn't it?

595
00:31:21,671 --> 00:31:24,173
-Do you see this man?
-What about him?

596
00:31:24,257 --> 00:31:26,426
He has 40 years
of theater in his head,

597
00:31:26,509 --> 00:31:29,345
and let me tell you,
he's not often been wrong.

598
00:31:29,429 --> 00:31:31,931
For our purposes,
he'll be a fresh eye.

599
00:31:32,765 --> 00:31:33,850
Sir?

600
00:31:33,933 --> 00:31:35,184
Sir?

601
00:31:35,268 --> 00:31:38,187
Wake up now,
act one is finished.

602
00:31:38,271 --> 00:31:40,899
Who's there? Oh, hi.

603
00:31:42,066 --> 00:31:43,985
I believe
I'll take myself home now.

604
00:31:44,068 --> 00:31:46,446
I'm not... not feeling
very well, I'm afraid.

605
00:31:46,529 --> 00:31:47,822
That's encouraging!

606
00:31:47,906 --> 00:31:49,407
The fool is obviously
drunk as a lord.

607
00:31:49,490 --> 00:31:51,075
We all believe in Topaze.

608
00:31:51,159 --> 00:31:53,119
And one slobbering boozer

609
00:31:53,202 --> 00:31:55,121
certainly won't make us
change our minds.

610
00:31:55,204 --> 00:31:57,749
Do not lose hope quite yet,
my friend.

611
00:31:57,832 --> 00:32:01,169
In the theater,
nothing is ever guaranteed.

612
00:32:01,252 --> 00:32:04,464
Not even a flop.

613
00:32:13,723 --> 00:32:16,100
-Aren't you coming to bed?
-In a minute.

614
00:32:25,401 --> 00:32:27,612
I'm looking at you, my handsome,

615
00:32:27,695 --> 00:32:29,614
admired by everyone,

616
00:32:29,697 --> 00:32:31,741
surrounded by beauties.

617
00:32:33,910 --> 00:32:36,746
Never forget
why you loved me, Marcel.

618
00:32:36,829 --> 00:32:39,207
Never forget my accent.

619
00:32:39,290 --> 00:32:43,002
That accent
is the melody of your childhood.

620
00:32:43,086 --> 00:32:45,588
Your first poems
are steeped in it.

621
00:32:45,672 --> 00:32:48,967
Your poems
that made my heart beat faster.

622
00:32:57,308 --> 00:32:59,435
Marcel?
Are you all right, darling?

623
00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:01,729
Oh, I'm better than all right.

624
00:33:01,813 --> 00:33:03,106
You may well be in love

625
00:33:03,189 --> 00:33:05,108
with the French navy,

626
00:33:05,191 --> 00:33:08,319
but the French navy
is telling you to piss off!

627
00:33:10,488 --> 00:33:15,451
Pagnol,
I have some good news for you.

628
00:33:15,535 --> 00:33:17,120
Yes?

629
00:33:17,203 --> 00:33:19,455
-The Fresh Eye is dead.
-You call that good news?

630
00:33:19,539 --> 00:33:20,999
Not so fresh after all!

631
00:33:21,082 --> 00:33:22,709
Quite worrisome, you're right.

632
00:33:22,792 --> 00:33:24,043
In other words, we've had

633
00:33:24,127 --> 00:33:25,586
one single spectator...

634
00:33:25,670 --> 00:33:27,213
...who saw only half
of the first act,

635
00:33:27,296 --> 00:33:28,673
but it cost him his life.

636
00:33:32,969 --> 00:33:35,763
When I write...

637
00:33:35,847 --> 00:33:40,852
When I write,
I wish to write right.

638
00:33:40,935 --> 00:33:44,856
To wuh-rite.

639
00:33:44,939 --> 00:33:47,358
Ri-guh-tuh.

640
00:33:47,442 --> 00:33:49,652
Come, child,
put some effort into it.

641
00:33:49,736 --> 00:33:52,905
You see, when I wuh-rite,

642
00:33:52,989 --> 00:33:56,200
I wish to wuh-rite ri-guh-tuh!

643
00:34:02,957 --> 00:34:04,542
Poor dear Pagnol.

644
00:34:05,626 --> 00:34:07,336
It's a total flop.

645
00:34:07,420 --> 00:34:09,797
You must come on stage
and apologize to the audience.

646
00:34:11,049 --> 00:34:13,092
-That bad, is it?
-I'm afraid so.

647
00:34:19,766 --> 00:34:23,686
Ladies and gentlemen, the true
culprit has been identified.

648
00:34:23,770 --> 00:34:26,064
Mr. Marcel Pagnol!

649
00:34:26,147 --> 00:34:28,066
Bravo!

650
00:34:29,859 --> 00:34:31,944
This way, Mr. Pagnol.

651
00:34:32,028 --> 00:34:35,031
May I present
the original Topaze!

652
00:34:35,114 --> 00:34:36,282
Truly honored.

653
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:39,535
You cruel bastards,

654
00:34:39,619 --> 00:34:41,329
you scared the life out of me!

655
00:34:41,412 --> 00:34:44,082
Marcel, someone's here
to see you.

656
00:34:46,501 --> 00:34:47,502
Father.

657
00:34:49,629 --> 00:34:50,922
Well done, my boy.

658
00:34:52,507 --> 00:34:56,260
What in the world?
You delusional child.

659
00:34:56,344 --> 00:34:58,179
Are you completely
out of your mind?

660
00:34:58,262 --> 00:35:00,056
You can't imagine for one second

661
00:35:00,139 --> 00:35:01,933
that I'll premiere
this play here?

662
00:35:02,016 --> 00:35:03,142
Then why did you summon me?

663
00:35:03,226 --> 00:35:05,353
Because this Marius of yours...

664
00:35:05,436 --> 00:35:08,147
...is a masterpiece!

665
00:35:08,231 --> 00:35:10,942
-But you won't put it on?
-Oh, of course I'll put it on!

666
00:35:11,025 --> 00:35:12,485
I will indeed,

667
00:35:12,568 --> 00:35:14,904
but only after 300 shows
in Paris.

668
00:35:15,613 --> 00:35:17,365
Did I say 300?

669
00:35:17,448 --> 00:35:19,784
Nay, rather 500!

670
00:35:19,867 --> 00:35:21,619
Have Raimu read it.

671
00:35:21,702 --> 00:35:24,664
Panisse is the role
that he was born to play.

672
00:35:24,747 --> 00:35:26,624
He's with
Leon Volterra's troupe.

673
00:35:26,707 --> 00:35:28,793
You know,
the owner of the Paris Theatre.

674
00:35:28,876 --> 00:35:31,379
They're at each other's throats
all the time,

675
00:35:31,462 --> 00:35:34,423
but nothing happens on the Paris
scene without their say-so.

676
00:35:34,507 --> 00:35:36,801
Raimu is actually
playing here tonight.

677
00:35:36,884 --> 00:35:39,929
But be forewarned,
this stuff shakes no spears.

678
00:35:42,014 --> 00:35:43,141
Ooh!

679
00:35:43,224 --> 00:35:44,934
My goodness me, darling!
It's you!

680
00:35:45,017 --> 00:35:48,354
Adelaide, what a joy
it is to see you again.

681
00:35:51,691 --> 00:35:54,610
Yes. Our time at the convent
seems so far away now!

682
00:35:54,694 --> 00:35:56,571
So whatever happened

683
00:35:56,654 --> 00:35:58,447
to your two little lovelies?

684
00:35:58,531 --> 00:36:01,117
Oh, the two little lovelies

685
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,412
have grown
into two swinging heavies!

686
00:36:04,495 --> 00:36:06,664
Well,
can you believe it or not,

687
00:36:06,747 --> 00:36:09,417
but mine have remained
so perky and sharp

688
00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:12,420
that I need to rub them
with sandpaper each morning,

689
00:36:12,503 --> 00:36:15,006
lest they poke holes
in my brassiere.

690
00:36:19,093 --> 00:36:21,429
What bothers
me is that a few years ago,

691
00:36:21,512 --> 00:36:23,556
one of our local companies
went to Paris

692
00:36:23,639 --> 00:36:26,142
and they put on a play
in the spirit of Marseille.

693
00:36:26,225 --> 00:36:28,102
-What of it?
-"What of it?"

694
00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:29,937
Critics dragged them
through the mud

695
00:36:30,021 --> 00:36:31,814
and the audience
booed them offstage.

696
00:36:31,898 --> 00:36:33,900
Well, perhaps the writing
wasn't any good.

697
00:36:33,983 --> 00:36:36,736
Hey, it's still
a very bad precedent.

698
00:36:36,819 --> 00:36:39,447
Volterra may have
forgotten that.

699
00:36:39,530 --> 00:36:41,991
We can always try,
if your play's half decent.

700
00:36:42,074 --> 00:36:43,701
But will you tell me one thing?

701
00:36:43,784 --> 00:36:45,203
This Marius lad,

702
00:36:45,286 --> 00:36:47,079
is he handsome?

703
00:36:47,163 --> 00:36:48,748
I'm listening.

704
00:36:48,831 --> 00:36:50,249
I need Raimu.

705
00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:53,377
For the title role.

706
00:36:53,461 --> 00:36:56,130
You know how he is, don't you?
He's impossible.

707
00:36:56,214 --> 00:36:58,382
He loves the play.

708
00:36:58,466 --> 00:37:00,635
I don't think he's capable
of carrying a comedy.

709
00:37:00,718 --> 00:37:02,136
I trust him completely.

710
00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:05,264
Very well.
You want him, you'll have him.

711
00:37:05,348 --> 00:37:07,225
But if you come
crying to me later,

712
00:37:07,308 --> 00:37:09,227
I shall laugh in your face.

713
00:37:10,269 --> 00:37:11,646
You're leaving?

714
00:37:11,729 --> 00:37:13,481
I'm off to Luna-Park
to settle some strife

715
00:37:13,564 --> 00:37:15,608
between the giant
and the bearded lady.

716
00:37:15,691 --> 00:37:17,485
Consummate ball-breakers both,

717
00:37:17,568 --> 00:37:18,986
but believe you me,

718
00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:20,988
they're angels
compared to your friend Raimu.

719
00:37:24,659 --> 00:37:26,994
-I saw Charpin in a play.
-And?

720
00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:29,538
He's very good.
He'd be ideal to play Panisse.

721
00:37:29,622 --> 00:37:31,165
-You spoke to him?
-No.

722
00:37:31,249 --> 00:37:33,042
But then how do you know
he wants to play Panisse?

723
00:37:33,125 --> 00:37:34,710
Because I'll play Cesar.

724
00:37:34,794 --> 00:37:37,088
Come now, Jules,
Cesar's a tiny role.

725
00:37:37,171 --> 00:37:38,464
You'll write me more lines.

726
00:37:38,547 --> 00:37:40,383
Please, Jules,
you can't be serious.

727
00:37:40,466 --> 00:37:42,468
I want to be the owner
of the bar.

728
00:37:42,551 --> 00:37:45,054
I want the play
to be set on my turf.

729
00:37:45,137 --> 00:37:48,683
Raimu doesn't go to Charpin,
Charpin must come to Raimu!

730
00:37:48,766 --> 00:37:50,685
- What is this?
- I'll think about it.

731
00:37:50,768 --> 00:37:52,645
But please,
could you keep your voice down?

732
00:37:52,728 --> 00:37:54,272
What is this?

733
00:37:57,483 --> 00:37:59,193
What's taking Fresnay so long?

734
00:37:59,277 --> 00:38:03,739
I told you! Hiring an Alsatian
to play a Marseillais is heresy.

735
00:38:03,823 --> 00:38:06,492
Our Lady of Marseille
likely just broke his legs.

736
00:38:06,575 --> 00:38:08,786
Or his train was simply delayed.

737
00:38:08,869 --> 00:38:10,579
He spent a fortnight
in Marseille,

738
00:38:10,663 --> 00:38:12,373
in a small tavern on the harbor,

739
00:38:12,456 --> 00:38:14,166
wiping tables
and rinsing glasses,

740
00:38:14,250 --> 00:38:15,751
so he can chat to the locals.

741
00:38:15,835 --> 00:38:18,170
Then your Alsatian
might've become an alcoholic,

742
00:38:18,254 --> 00:38:20,256
but he certainly didn't
become a Marseillais.

743
00:38:20,339 --> 00:38:21,716
You are right, as always.

744
00:38:21,799 --> 00:38:23,592
Let's go. I'll read his lines.

745
00:38:23,676 --> 00:38:25,720
Let's take it from
"It's not about the coffee."

746
00:38:25,803 --> 00:38:27,805
It's not about the coffee,
it's just wrong.

747
00:38:27,888 --> 00:38:29,223
What's just wrong?

748
00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:30,599
Draining away my stock
while I'm asleep.

749
00:38:30,683 --> 00:38:33,644
If you wanted to insult me,
you have.

750
00:38:33,728 --> 00:38:35,146
Insult you? How so?

751
00:38:35,229 --> 00:38:37,189
If at my age,
I can't offer a coffee

752
00:38:37,273 --> 00:38:38,649
on the house, then what am I?

753
00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:40,735
You're a child,
and a child obeys his father.

754
00:38:40,818 --> 00:38:42,403
-At his age?
-Yes, m'dear!

755
00:38:42,486 --> 00:38:44,739
I was 32
when me own father kicked me

756
00:38:44,822 --> 00:38:46,907
in the pants
for the very last time!

757
00:38:46,991 --> 00:38:48,826
That's what family was
in my day.

758
00:38:48,909 --> 00:38:51,120
There was respect
and tenderness.

759
00:38:51,203 --> 00:38:53,789
Especially in the pants.

760
00:38:55,082 --> 00:38:56,667
See that, Pagnol?

761
00:38:56,751 --> 00:38:58,961
I told you an Alsatian
could play a Marseillais.

762
00:38:59,045 --> 00:39:02,048
All he needed
was the right scarf.

763
00:39:02,131 --> 00:39:04,467
By the way,
I saw you cut the card game.

764
00:39:04,550 --> 00:39:05,801
The play is too long

765
00:39:05,885 --> 00:39:07,553
and the card game
feels like a skit.

766
00:39:07,636 --> 00:39:09,221
You find it vulgar, don't you?

767
00:39:09,305 --> 00:39:12,391
Let's say it's unworthy
of this kind of venue.

768
00:39:12,475 --> 00:39:15,353
You shake the spears.
I defer to you.

769
00:39:17,229 --> 00:39:20,191
End of act two,
15-minute intermission.

770
00:39:23,652 --> 00:39:26,989
-I really need a fresh eye.
-I'm all ears.

771
00:39:27,073 --> 00:39:28,949
Does this play
catch your interest?

772
00:39:29,033 --> 00:39:32,036
Well, I believe I would like it
if I understood the actors.

773
00:39:32,119 --> 00:39:34,205
-Are they speaking too softly?
-It's not that.

774
00:39:34,288 --> 00:39:36,207
Some phrases are very incorrect,

775
00:39:36,290 --> 00:39:38,584
and that hideous accent
corrupting the vowels, it's...

776
00:39:38,667 --> 00:39:40,252
it's just incomprehensible.

777
00:39:40,336 --> 00:39:43,464
Oh! Do not listen
to this man's ravings!

778
00:39:43,547 --> 00:39:45,424
He's notoriously stupid!

779
00:39:45,508 --> 00:39:48,844
-Stupid? Me?
-You, sir! Indeed!

780
00:39:48,928 --> 00:39:51,806
-I will not take that!
-Jules, this is not helpful.

781
00:39:51,889 --> 00:39:55,267
Who allowed this imbecile
in here to spy on us?

782
00:39:55,351 --> 00:39:58,896
Draw the curtain until
this blind fool removes himself.

783
00:39:58,979 --> 00:40:00,689
Hmm. Blind fool?

784
00:40:00,773 --> 00:40:02,525
I've not come here
to be insulted.

785
00:40:02,608 --> 00:40:04,402
We shall see about that.
Yes, we shall.

786
00:40:09,907 --> 00:40:11,617
Oh?

787
00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:14,161
Are you going to spend
the interval back here?

788
00:40:14,245 --> 00:40:17,498
It's not getting any laughs.
Might as well be a tragedy.

789
00:40:17,581 --> 00:40:21,502
They feel like laughing,
but... they don't want to.

790
00:40:21,585 --> 00:40:24,630
Don't worry. We'll bring 'em
around in act three.

791
00:40:24,713 --> 00:40:26,257
Well, then? It's your turn.

792
00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:28,551
I'm aware, but I'm hesitating.

793
00:40:28,634 --> 00:40:30,636
D'you plan to hesitate
into the wee hours?

794
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,847
Please, Captain, we're waiting.

795
00:40:32,930 --> 00:40:34,849
Well,
it's not a trifling matter.

796
00:40:34,932 --> 00:40:36,559
They're at 32, but how much
do we have? Thirty.

797
00:40:36,642 --> 00:40:38,310
They have reinstated
the card game!

798
00:40:38,394 --> 00:40:40,354
Raimu held secret rehearsals.

799
00:40:40,438 --> 00:40:42,481
He dared to do this to me?

800
00:40:42,565 --> 00:40:44,233
That two-faced toe-rag!

801
00:40:44,316 --> 00:40:46,569
Look at where they took it,
though, instead of griping.

802
00:40:46,652 --> 00:40:47,945
Oh?

803
00:40:48,028 --> 00:40:50,364
So you're a part
of this little conspiracy?

804
00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:52,450
Shut up, Pagnol! Listen.

805
00:40:52,533 --> 00:40:54,452
I'm showing him nothing,
I gave nothing away,

806
00:40:54,535 --> 00:40:56,078
I'm as tight as a bank vault!

807
00:40:56,162 --> 00:40:57,329
At any rate,

808
00:40:57,413 --> 00:40:58,831
table talk
is strictly forbidden.

809
00:40:58,914 --> 00:41:00,583
"Parisians have just discovered

810
00:41:00,666 --> 00:41:02,877
"the picturesque lingo
of the Marseillais,

811
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:06,797
"the sincerity of Orane Demazis,
the mastery of Fresnay,

812
00:41:06,881 --> 00:41:08,674
"and the spiritedness of Raimu,

813
00:41:08,757 --> 00:41:11,552
"who is sure to be
one of the greats."

814
00:41:11,635 --> 00:41:13,512
Each night's sold out.
It's a dream.

815
00:41:13,596 --> 00:41:15,556
Admit you're flabbergasted,
Jules.

816
00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:18,350
I'll tell you
what I'm flabbergasted by, Leon.

817
00:41:18,434 --> 00:41:20,561
This little piece of wallpaper

818
00:41:20,644 --> 00:41:21,729
that I ripped off
my dressing room.

819
00:41:21,812 --> 00:41:23,147
How dare you?

820
00:41:23,230 --> 00:41:26,942
It reads as follows,
"Mr. Raimu is a genius."

821
00:41:27,026 --> 00:41:30,404
And it is signed Marcel Pagnol.
Thank you, my friend.

822
00:41:30,488 --> 00:41:32,907
Some friends you are,
right pair of vandals!

823
00:41:32,990 --> 00:41:34,909
Who told you
to deface my theater?

824
00:41:34,992 --> 00:41:36,452
By Jove, Volterra!

825
00:41:36,535 --> 00:41:38,245
Don't get your knickers
in a twist

826
00:41:38,329 --> 00:41:39,663
over a tiny scrap of paper!

827
00:41:39,747 --> 00:41:41,582
Tiny or not,
that wallpaper was chosen by me.

828
00:41:41,665 --> 00:41:43,000
Comes as no surprise.

829
00:41:43,083 --> 00:41:45,127
It's as unsightly
as the ties you wear.

830
00:41:48,088 --> 00:41:50,758
This success doesn't seem
to make you happy, Marcel.

831
00:41:50,841 --> 00:41:52,343
What's left for me to do now?

832
00:41:52,426 --> 00:41:54,678
Write more plays, you silly man!

833
00:41:54,762 --> 00:41:56,347
But I'll never be able
to do better,

834
00:41:56,430 --> 00:41:57,806
now that he's kept his promise.

835
00:41:57,890 --> 00:42:00,684
-Who's kept his promise?
-A sweet little boy.

836
00:42:00,768 --> 00:42:02,144
What little boy?

837
00:42:02,978 --> 00:42:04,688
It is a long story.

838
00:42:06,857 --> 00:42:09,276
I knew you no longer
wanted to write

839
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,403
because theater
had become too easy.

840
00:42:11,487 --> 00:42:12,947
Too easy?

841
00:42:13,030 --> 00:42:14,782
No, it's not that.

842
00:42:14,865 --> 00:42:16,992
It's just that I felt cramped.

843
00:42:21,413 --> 00:42:23,624
Enter
the silver screen.

844
00:43:48,375 --> 00:43:51,712
Ain't it awful the way
they cut out these big stars.

845
00:43:51,795 --> 00:43:54,298
I'll get to you in a minute.

846
00:43:54,381 --> 00:43:56,884
Listen here, Mr. Danfield,
you can't cut us out like that.

847
00:43:56,967 --> 00:43:58,636
For we got equity contract!

848
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:02,431
The house is packed, for the
350th performance, no less.

849
00:44:02,514 --> 00:44:05,434
-Yes, but we're still doomed.
-And why is that?

850
00:44:05,517 --> 00:44:07,686
Mr. Pagnol was just in London.

851
00:44:07,770 --> 00:44:09,730
He saw a talking picture,
three times!

852
00:44:09,813 --> 00:44:11,190
Good grief!

853
00:44:11,273 --> 00:44:12,691
He believes that theaters
will close down.

854
00:44:12,775 --> 00:44:14,360
I say, "Fine! In that case,

855
00:44:14,443 --> 00:44:16,945
"let's just cancel
these performances of Marius.

856
00:44:17,029 --> 00:44:18,906
"They're stupidly theatrical."

857
00:44:18,989 --> 00:44:20,949
You exaggerate, Leon.
I never said that.

858
00:44:21,033 --> 00:44:22,743
I'll just pack it in,
buy a magic lantern

859
00:44:22,826 --> 00:44:24,328
and a phonograph. Oh...

860
00:44:24,411 --> 00:44:27,164
Nonsense!
Let me tell you something.

861
00:44:27,247 --> 00:44:29,667
This talking-film business,
this thingamabob,

862
00:44:29,750 --> 00:44:31,502
it's a circus attraction.

863
00:44:31,585 --> 00:44:34,338
Get one for your Luna-Park,
it'll last you one season.

864
00:44:34,421 --> 00:44:36,882
No, no. Pagnol is right.

865
00:44:36,965 --> 00:44:38,759
Besides, I'm not uninterested.

866
00:44:38,842 --> 00:44:40,594
Because if you perform
only once,

867
00:44:40,678 --> 00:44:42,513
and I pay you only once,

868
00:44:42,596 --> 00:44:45,432
I still get one or two thousand
free showings

869
00:44:45,516 --> 00:44:47,017
from your mug
talking on my screen.

870
00:44:47,101 --> 00:44:48,644
Pagnol!

871
00:44:48,727 --> 00:44:51,313
Will you let this crook
pillage my work?

872
00:44:51,397 --> 00:44:53,732
What's your talking picture got
that I don't?

873
00:44:53,816 --> 00:44:55,984
-I'm listening.
-Here we go again.

874
00:44:56,068 --> 00:44:58,529
Jules, thanks to this
marvelous invention,

875
00:44:58,612 --> 00:45:01,490
I'll no longer be limited
by the dimensions of the stage.

876
00:45:01,573 --> 00:45:03,325
I can film a face
10 inches away,

877
00:45:03,409 --> 00:45:05,327
and see a tear
roll down a cheek.

878
00:45:05,411 --> 00:45:07,705
You want me to cry?

879
00:45:07,788 --> 00:45:09,748
I will be able to produce
a whispered scene

880
00:45:09,832 --> 00:45:11,750
and I guarantee the audience
will hear it perfectly.

881
00:45:11,834 --> 00:45:13,711
You want me to whisper?

882
00:45:13,794 --> 00:45:15,796
Excellent idea, Pagnol!

883
00:45:15,879 --> 00:45:20,050
Jules, thanks to the camera,
I can soar up above

884
00:45:20,134 --> 00:45:22,344
and capture a scene from afar,

885
00:45:22,428 --> 00:45:25,180
like a bird might,
or a guardian angel.

886
00:45:25,264 --> 00:45:26,890
Or God.

887
00:45:26,974 --> 00:45:28,767
I suggest you cover
your bald spot, Jules.

888
00:45:28,851 --> 00:45:30,436
I can picture it from here!

889
00:45:30,519 --> 00:45:32,938
I'll be free to jump
over the stage lights,

890
00:45:33,021 --> 00:45:34,273
circle around the scene,

891
00:45:34,356 --> 00:45:36,233
and burst open
the walls of the theater.

892
00:45:36,316 --> 00:45:38,026
And pull apart the setting!

893
00:45:38,110 --> 00:45:39,653
Or the actor.

894
00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:43,240
Good heavens! Think what
your colleagues will say.

895
00:45:43,323 --> 00:45:45,617
You would forsake the theater?
You can't be serious!

896
00:45:45,701 --> 00:45:48,287
Wouldn't that be a desertion?

897
00:45:48,370 --> 00:45:50,622
Such cowardice is unfathomable!

898
00:45:50,706 --> 00:45:53,417
Would you not be
forever disgraced?

899
00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:56,420
After everything
the theater has done for you?

900
00:45:56,503 --> 00:45:59,214
Don't go into cinema unless.

901
00:45:59,298 --> 00:46:00,466
The facade alone requires

902
00:46:00,549 --> 00:46:02,259
that we replace
500 bulbs per week.

903
00:46:02,342 --> 00:46:03,427
THE LOVE PARADE

904
00:46:03,510 --> 00:46:05,262
That seems an awful lot.

905
00:46:05,345 --> 00:46:08,891
Would you happen to also
be an expert on lightbulbs?

906
00:46:08,974 --> 00:46:10,726
Look at this,
if you don't believe me.

907
00:46:16,398 --> 00:46:18,609
-Ah! Bob, my friend!
-Ah.

908
00:46:18,692 --> 00:46:20,861
With the latest from Hollywood.

909
00:46:20,944 --> 00:46:23,864
Bob, let me introduce
Marcel Pagnol.

910
00:46:23,947 --> 00:46:26,450
Hey there. How ya doin', pal?

911
00:46:26,533 --> 00:46:28,035
I'm fine. And dandy.

912
00:46:28,118 --> 00:46:29,453
What fun!

913
00:46:29,536 --> 00:46:32,706
A Frenchie
who speaks just like I do!

914
00:46:32,790 --> 00:46:37,044
I'm ravenous, Marcel.
Shall we find a restaurant?

915
00:46:37,127 --> 00:46:39,338
So, tell me.
Do you make the bulbs yourself?

916
00:46:40,047 --> 00:46:41,799
What bulbs?

917
00:46:41,882 --> 00:46:43,842
The ones that you supply
to Paramount.

918
00:46:43,926 --> 00:46:46,011
They're absolutely amazing.

919
00:46:46,094 --> 00:46:47,930
If you think
I'm a lightbulb salesman,

920
00:46:48,013 --> 00:46:49,932
why have you invited me here?

921
00:46:50,015 --> 00:46:52,935
Because you seemed
to me like a good guy.

922
00:46:53,018 --> 00:46:55,437
And I surround myself
with good guys.

923
00:46:55,521 --> 00:46:57,314
But seriously now,

924
00:46:57,397 --> 00:46:59,233
what's it you do for a living?

925
00:46:59,316 --> 00:47:01,235
Bob practically gave me
the keys to his studio.

926
00:47:01,318 --> 00:47:02,444
Paramount Studios

927
00:47:02,528 --> 00:47:04,404
Let me explain
how all this works.

928
00:47:04,488 --> 00:47:06,698
At the very top,
there's Hollywood,

929
00:47:06,782 --> 00:47:08,534
the mecca of cinema.

930
00:47:08,617 --> 00:47:10,327
Just below that comes Paramount.

931
00:47:10,410 --> 00:47:14,122
Everyone bows down
before their totem.

932
00:47:14,206 --> 00:47:17,584
Then you have the executives,
big-studio management.

933
00:47:17,668 --> 00:47:19,044
Then, there's
the studio doorman,

934
00:47:19,127 --> 00:47:20,504
a powerful wizard

935
00:47:20,587 --> 00:47:22,297
who opens the gates
for hundreds of people

936
00:47:22,381 --> 00:47:24,174
and slams them
on thousands more.

937
00:47:24,258 --> 00:47:25,634
The head of advertising,

938
00:47:25,717 --> 00:47:28,095
who can make
three telephone calls at once.

939
00:47:28,178 --> 00:47:30,264
- Impressive!
- Confirmed. Please go away.

940
00:47:30,347 --> 00:47:31,723
And Western Electric,

941
00:47:31,807 --> 00:47:34,142
who owns the machine
that transcribes sound.

942
00:47:35,978 --> 00:47:37,604
The head of processing,

943
00:47:38,188 --> 00:47:39,815
of editing,

944
00:47:39,898 --> 00:47:40,983
of music.

945
00:47:42,651 --> 00:47:45,654
The head of costumes.

946
00:47:45,737 --> 00:47:48,115
Then there's the director,
who's all the more respected

947
00:47:48,198 --> 00:47:50,576
when he comes from abroad,
like liars do.

948
00:47:50,659 --> 00:47:51,994
Cut!

949
00:47:52,077 --> 00:47:53,829
How was I?

950
00:47:53,912 --> 00:47:55,998
Amazing!

951
00:47:56,081 --> 00:47:58,750
The director is often
a liar himself.

952
00:47:58,834 --> 00:48:01,545
After that comes
the review committee.

953
00:48:01,628 --> 00:48:04,256
People who have never written
a novel or play in their life,

954
00:48:04,339 --> 00:48:07,009
who carve up and rehash
the works of others.

955
00:48:07,092 --> 00:48:09,553
Next in line
comes the movie star.

956
00:48:09,636 --> 00:48:12,139
The salary of movie stars
should be enormous,

957
00:48:12,222 --> 00:48:14,683
so they end up believing
their success and fortune

958
00:48:14,766 --> 00:48:16,351
are due to their talent alone.

959
00:48:16,435 --> 00:48:20,439
Such creatures
are generally naive to a fault.

960
00:48:20,522 --> 00:48:22,024
And finally,

961
00:48:22,107 --> 00:48:23,525
on the very last rung
of the ladder,

962
00:48:23,609 --> 00:48:25,110
is the writer.

963
00:48:25,193 --> 00:48:27,571
He gets paid,
he gets a reception,

964
00:48:27,654 --> 00:48:30,532
he gets to drink to the success
of the studio, the film,

965
00:48:30,616 --> 00:48:32,075
the future of cinema.

966
00:48:32,159 --> 00:48:33,994
He smiles, rubs shoulders,
he's happy.

967
00:48:35,370 --> 00:48:37,456
Study him carefully,

968
00:48:37,539 --> 00:48:39,917
because you'll never see him
in such spirits again.

969
00:48:42,419 --> 00:48:44,046
Very well!

970
00:48:44,129 --> 00:48:45,964
I'm buying the rights
to Marius.

971
00:48:46,048 --> 00:48:47,716
We're gonna make a great film.

972
00:48:47,799 --> 00:48:48,967
You mean that?

973
00:48:49,051 --> 00:48:50,677
Nah. I don't understand
the Frenchies.

974
00:48:50,761 --> 00:48:53,347
They boo the beautiful movies
I make for 'em.

975
00:48:53,430 --> 00:48:55,223
That's because sound
is no longer a novelty.

976
00:48:55,307 --> 00:48:56,892
Speaking is no longer enough,

977
00:48:56,975 --> 00:48:58,977
you have to have
something to say.

978
00:48:59,061 --> 00:49:01,897
So... we got a deal?

979
00:49:01,980 --> 00:49:04,858
We certainly do, but with
my troupe from Marseille?

980
00:49:04,942 --> 00:49:07,444
No, no, no.
No one knows those guys.

981
00:49:07,527 --> 00:49:09,655
You can't fake the true accent
of Marseille.

982
00:49:09,738 --> 00:49:13,367
And what exactly is your
goddamn accent of Marseille?

983
00:49:13,450 --> 00:49:17,079
Oh, dear,
how can I explain it?

984
00:49:17,162 --> 00:49:20,582
Imagine that your jaw bones flap
as if mounted on a coil.

985
00:49:20,666 --> 00:49:22,960
-On a coil?
-Or... springs.

986
00:49:23,543 --> 00:49:25,003
Okay.

987
00:49:25,087 --> 00:49:27,255
Now, can you repeat this
after me?

988
00:49:27,339 --> 00:49:28,632
"Don't look at me like that,

989
00:49:28,715 --> 00:49:31,343
"you break my soul
with your anxiety."

990
00:49:31,426 --> 00:49:35,639
Don't break my soul with...
with your anxiety.

991
00:49:35,722 --> 00:49:38,058
Anxiety.

992
00:49:38,141 --> 00:49:40,227
Anxiety.

993
00:49:40,310 --> 00:49:42,604
Anxiety!

994
00:49:42,688 --> 00:49:44,022
Are you okay, sir?

995
00:49:44,106 --> 00:49:45,732
Yeah, yeah.

996
00:49:45,816 --> 00:49:48,694
That's the accent. It has
to be loud, it has to resonate.

997
00:49:48,777 --> 00:49:50,278
I can feel that coil.

998
00:49:50,362 --> 00:49:52,489
That's precisely
why we need experts.

999
00:49:52,572 --> 00:49:54,324
Okay, okay, sold!

1000
00:49:54,408 --> 00:49:55,867
I'll hire the most
famous director

1001
00:49:55,951 --> 00:49:57,285
in the world for this picture,

1002
00:49:57,369 --> 00:49:59,329
fly him in from the States.

1003
00:49:59,413 --> 00:50:01,456
Alexander Korda.

1004
00:50:01,540 --> 00:50:03,542
-He has a passport?
-Yeah. He's got about six.

1005
00:50:03,625 --> 00:50:05,293
You think
I find that reassuring?

1006
00:50:05,377 --> 00:50:08,338
Marcel! He's Hungarian.

1007
00:50:08,422 --> 00:50:11,216
Uh, a Hungarian to direct
a film about Marseille?

1008
00:50:11,299 --> 00:50:13,677
I can hear Raimu's reaction
from here.

1009
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,221
Say that again. Raymoo?

1010
00:50:16,304 --> 00:50:19,433
A Tartar from Hollyvoid
to capture us on film?

1011
00:50:19,516 --> 00:50:21,518
What? Were there
no more Alsatians,

1012
00:50:21,601 --> 00:50:23,687
so you looked
in the Carpathians?

1013
00:50:23,770 --> 00:50:27,441
If you think I'm going to lend
my face to Attila the Hun,

1014
00:50:27,524 --> 00:50:29,776
you'll have to find yourself
another Cesar!

1015
00:50:29,860 --> 00:50:32,029
It's a big wide world out there!

1016
00:50:32,112 --> 00:50:33,905
And while you're at it,

1017
00:50:33,989 --> 00:50:35,699
why not a bloke from Timbuktu?

1018
00:50:37,576 --> 00:50:40,328
- Thank you, Alexander.
- For what, Marcel?

1019
00:50:40,412 --> 00:50:41,872
For letting me
direct the actors.

1020
00:50:41,955 --> 00:50:43,290
It was reassuring for Raimu.

1021
00:50:43,373 --> 00:50:45,500
I've never directed
actors who speak,

1022
00:50:45,584 --> 00:50:47,669
and you've never used a camera.

1023
00:50:47,753 --> 00:50:49,296
Helping each other is key.

1024
00:50:49,379 --> 00:50:50,547
AUDIO SERVICE

1025
00:50:50,630 --> 00:50:52,841
-Uh, Mr. Korda!
-What is it now?

1026
00:50:52,924 --> 00:50:56,303
Raimu's voice isn't photogenic.
We cannot record him.

1027
00:50:56,386 --> 00:50:59,598
Quite the conundrum for you,
because we cannot replace Jules.

1028
00:50:59,681 --> 00:51:01,308
You, we might.

1029
00:51:01,391 --> 00:51:04,603
What's this I hear
about replacing Jules?

1030
00:51:04,686 --> 00:51:05,854
Good morning, sir.

1031
00:51:05,937 --> 00:51:08,106
-Ah! You're the sound recordist.
-Mm-hmm.

1032
00:51:08,190 --> 00:51:10,192
The one who can't hear my voice?

1033
00:51:10,275 --> 00:51:11,818
-Would you like it louder?.

1034
00:51:12,986 --> 00:51:14,446
Mr. Brun,

1035
00:51:14,529 --> 00:51:17,741
don't tell anyone
that Escartefigue is a cuckold.

1036
00:51:17,824 --> 00:51:19,076
Please, that hurts!

1037
00:51:19,159 --> 00:51:21,870
I repeat,
Escartefigue is a cuckold!

1038
00:51:21,953 --> 00:51:23,789
He's splitting my cochlea.

1039
00:51:23,872 --> 00:51:26,208
May I say,
your American apparatus

1040
00:51:26,291 --> 00:51:28,585
doesn't yet master our palates.

1041
00:51:28,668 --> 00:51:31,296
So, come have a pastis
at 11:00 sharp.

1042
00:51:31,379 --> 00:51:33,298
To wrap your ears
around my trombone,

1043
00:51:33,381 --> 00:51:35,342
I'll fill them full of fables.

1044
00:51:35,425 --> 00:51:38,261
Would you call this
a fable, Jules?

1045
00:51:38,345 --> 00:51:41,306
Who would have believed
those poor fools of Parisians

1046
00:51:41,389 --> 00:51:43,308
would turn up in droves to hear

1047
00:51:43,391 --> 00:51:45,685
stories about Marseillais?

1048
00:51:45,769 --> 00:51:47,270
You're breaking my heart.

1049
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,774
You're
breaking my heart.

1050
00:51:52,609 --> 00:51:53,735
Oy!

1051
00:51:53,819 --> 00:51:54,986
-What?
-We playing or what?

1052
00:51:55,070 --> 00:51:56,738
What are we doing here?

1053
00:51:56,822 --> 00:51:58,532
He broke my heart,
what about you?

1054
00:51:58,615 --> 00:51:59,825
What about you, eh?

1055
00:51:59,908 --> 00:52:01,409
Oh. Very well! Here!

1056
00:52:01,493 --> 00:52:03,370
My friend,
this film will make you

1057
00:52:03,453 --> 00:52:05,789
the king of Hollyvoid.

1058
00:52:08,208 --> 00:52:11,253
Paramount Studios

1059
00:52:11,336 --> 00:52:13,421
Your Americans
aren't easy to understand.

1060
00:52:13,505 --> 00:52:16,341
You earn them a fortune,
and then they sack you.

1061
00:52:16,424 --> 00:52:18,009
They're like children.

1062
00:52:18,093 --> 00:52:20,929
Pagnol the plaything
is no longer entertaining.

1063
00:52:21,012 --> 00:52:22,556
Are you giving up cinema?

1064
00:52:22,639 --> 00:52:25,392
On the contrary.
With the returns from Marius,

1065
00:52:25,475 --> 00:52:27,769
I'll build my own studios
in Marseille.

1066
00:52:27,853 --> 00:52:31,815
I'll be free to make the films
I want with whomever I want.

1067
00:52:31,898 --> 00:52:34,151
But I must get the rights
to Fanny back at all costs.

1068
00:52:36,736 --> 00:52:38,196
Paramount doesn't intend
to use them?

1069
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,073
Absolutely correct.

1070
00:52:40,157 --> 00:52:41,449
You must be joking.

1071
00:52:41,533 --> 00:52:43,368
Absolutely not.

1072
00:52:43,451 --> 00:52:45,996
-Despite the success of Marius?
-Yes.

1073
00:52:46,079 --> 00:52:47,497
And why is that?

1074
00:52:47,581 --> 00:52:50,041
Because Fanny
is a sequel to Marius.

1075
00:52:50,125 --> 00:52:52,711
And never before has a sequel
been profitable.

1076
00:52:52,794 --> 00:52:54,296
-Ever?
-Never.

1077
00:52:56,673 --> 00:52:58,425
Never make a sequel.

1078
00:52:58,508 --> 00:53:01,970
It's a law engraved in gold
on the pediment of Hollywood.

1079
00:53:02,971 --> 00:53:04,890
Put that away, I'll pay.

1080
00:53:04,973 --> 00:53:07,100
Sorry, Bob, but paper is paper.

1081
00:53:07,184 --> 00:53:09,311
Sign here, please.

1082
00:53:09,394 --> 00:53:12,480
I'll truly never understand
how the French mind works.

1083
00:53:17,277 --> 00:53:18,945
Rolling.

1084
00:53:19,029 --> 00:53:21,489
AUDIO SERVICE

1085
00:53:21,573 --> 00:53:22,824
And action!

1086
00:53:26,119 --> 00:53:28,079
He's fine.
He's doing fine. Here.

1087
00:53:28,163 --> 00:53:29,414
Read me his letter again.

1088
00:53:29,497 --> 00:53:31,041
Go ahead, darlin'.

1089
00:53:31,124 --> 00:53:32,334
-"My dear father."
-Yes?

1090
00:53:32,417 --> 00:53:33,668
"Forgive me, dear Father,

1091
00:53:33,752 --> 00:53:35,545
"for the pain
I may have caused you.

1092
00:53:35,629 --> 00:53:38,423
"I know how sad you must be
since I sailed off.

1093
00:53:38,506 --> 00:53:40,550
"I think of you every night."

1094
00:53:40,634 --> 00:53:42,052
You think of me every night?

1095
00:53:42,135 --> 00:53:44,179
And I think of you
all day, imbecile.

1096
00:53:44,262 --> 00:53:46,681
- Keep reading, dear.
- "How do I tell you?

1097
00:53:46,765 --> 00:53:48,725
"How do I explain
why I had this urge?

1098
00:53:48,808 --> 00:53:50,518
"I wouldn't know
where to begin.

1099
00:53:50,602 --> 00:53:52,520
"But you can ask Fanny,

1100
00:53:52,604 --> 00:53:54,356
-"she knew of my folly."
-"Folly"!

1101
00:53:54,439 --> 00:53:57,192
He said that right!
Glad to hear he's aware of it.

1102
00:54:07,661 --> 00:54:10,121
Mum, I don't think
we should disturb 'em.

1103
00:54:10,205 --> 00:54:13,250
They're doing things I don't
understand. Things adults do.

1104
00:54:13,333 --> 00:54:15,085
Is he with Orane?

1105
00:54:15,168 --> 00:54:16,253
Tonight he is.

1106
00:54:17,963 --> 00:54:20,257
See, Mum, I told you
I'd be a millionaire.

1107
00:54:21,299 --> 00:54:23,260
I worry about him.

1108
00:54:23,343 --> 00:54:25,428
I'm afraid success
will go to his head.

1109
00:54:25,512 --> 00:54:27,722
That won't happen.
I watch over him.

1110
00:54:29,599 --> 00:54:31,476
What're you drawing?

1111
00:54:31,559 --> 00:54:35,397
A cicada.
The emblem of my studios.

1112
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,400
-Your new toy.
-And the whole family can play.

1113
00:54:38,483 --> 00:54:40,527
Germaine and Rene
will have jobs there.

1114
00:54:40,610 --> 00:54:42,320
Even Paul.

1115
00:54:42,404 --> 00:54:45,699
He will never leave the hills.
He doesn't care for money.

1116
00:54:45,782 --> 00:54:47,742
Mum, thanks to this money,

1117
00:54:47,826 --> 00:54:49,995
Paul can afford
the operation on his nose.

1118
00:54:50,078 --> 00:54:52,080
Breathing won't be
difficult anymore.

1119
00:54:52,163 --> 00:54:54,749
May the Lord hear you, Marcel.

1120
00:54:54,833 --> 00:54:56,126
May the Lord hear you.

1121
00:55:11,141 --> 00:55:12,600
It was on his bedside table.

1122
00:55:23,695 --> 00:55:24,863
Marcel.

1123
00:55:25,655 --> 00:55:26,990
Paul!

1124
00:55:27,073 --> 00:55:28,783
This is yours.

1125
00:55:28,867 --> 00:55:31,536
Of the two of us, you've
stayed true to our childhood.

1126
00:55:31,619 --> 00:55:34,039
I betrayed you
by leaving for Paris.

1127
00:55:34,122 --> 00:55:36,875
Because I stayed in our hills
to raise goats?

1128
00:55:36,958 --> 00:55:39,169
I did what I loved to do,
just like you.

1129
00:55:39,252 --> 00:55:42,547
And besides, films don't grow
in these dry hills.

1130
00:55:42,630 --> 00:55:44,632
Not yet.

1131
00:55:46,426 --> 00:55:47,594
Wanna hold it?

1132
00:55:48,928 --> 00:55:50,388
It's waking up.

1133
00:55:50,472 --> 00:55:51,890
It tickles!

1134
00:55:53,433 --> 00:55:54,768
Take good care of Papa,

1135
00:55:54,851 --> 00:55:57,395
and our sister
and little Rene. Will you?

1136
00:55:57,479 --> 00:56:00,607
Little Rene is now
half a head taller than me.

1137
00:56:00,690 --> 00:56:03,026
We'll meet again someday,
I promise.

1138
00:56:06,654 --> 00:56:10,283
Mr. Pagnol!

1139
00:56:10,367 --> 00:56:14,162
Mr. Pagnol, whose productions
for the theater

1140
00:56:14,245 --> 00:56:16,289
were undeniably superior,

1141
00:56:16,373 --> 00:56:19,000
has provided us
magnificent proof

1142
00:56:19,084 --> 00:56:21,628
of his ignorance of cinema!

1143
00:56:23,171 --> 00:56:25,465
Thank you, Rene.
Is that all?

1144
00:56:25,548 --> 00:56:26,966
I saved the best
till last.

1145
00:56:27,884 --> 00:56:30,512
"Mr. Pagnol, a sly schemer,

1146
00:56:30,595 --> 00:56:33,306
"all boneless nose,
protruding eyes,

1147
00:56:33,390 --> 00:56:35,225
"and baleful set
of the mouth..."

1148
00:56:35,308 --> 00:56:36,643
Good grief!

1149
00:56:36,726 --> 00:56:39,604
"...brings to mind
an anemic anteater.

1150
00:56:39,687 --> 00:56:42,524
"An anemic anteater,
itself sucked dry

1151
00:56:42,607 --> 00:56:45,026
"by a horde
of ravenous red ants."

1152
00:56:45,110 --> 00:56:46,403
This one's a poet.

1153
00:56:50,907 --> 00:56:51,908
You all right, Rene?

1154
00:56:51,991 --> 00:56:54,035
Mr. Pagnol! Mr. Pagnol!

1155
00:56:54,119 --> 00:56:55,537
-Which one?
-Which one?

1156
00:56:55,620 --> 00:56:57,455
Mr. Marcel, something terrible
has happened!

1157
00:56:57,539 --> 00:57:00,250
-Bad review?
-Worse than that!

1158
00:57:00,333 --> 00:57:02,877
Do you remember that little lamb
we used in the pastorale?

1159
00:57:02,961 --> 00:57:04,003
What of it?

1160
00:57:04,087 --> 00:57:05,630
LABORATORY
NO SMOKING

1161
00:57:05,713 --> 00:57:07,715
I told you
it was only a two-week lease.

1162
00:57:07,799 --> 00:57:09,134
Getting attached

1163
00:57:09,217 --> 00:57:10,718
is not a good idea.

1164
00:57:10,802 --> 00:57:13,096
When you look at it,
you see a sweet cuddly toy,

1165
00:57:13,179 --> 00:57:14,264
but what I see are some cutlets.

1166
00:57:15,765 --> 00:57:17,142
I'll buy it back
at the price of the cutlets.

1167
00:57:17,225 --> 00:57:18,768
How about the shanks?

1168
00:57:18,852 --> 00:57:21,187
The shanks too. We'd prefer him
to stay in one piece.

1169
00:57:21,271 --> 00:57:24,524
I'd heard that all of you
film folk were a funny lot.

1170
00:57:26,192 --> 00:57:29,654
Now, look, you. It'll likely
cost you a pretty penny.

1171
00:57:29,737 --> 00:57:32,240
If you ever want to make
a picture about a bullock.

1172
00:57:33,366 --> 00:57:34,826
Bullock

1173
00:57:34,909 --> 00:57:36,828
is the name
the film-processing girls

1174
00:57:36,911 --> 00:57:38,496
gave him.

1175
00:57:38,580 --> 00:57:40,790
Bullock
devours films, literally.

1176
00:57:40,874 --> 00:57:43,751
He was caught grazing
the film stock he sleeps on.

1177
00:57:43,835 --> 00:57:45,837
He is said
to have gobbled 90 feet,

1178
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:47,922
the equivalent
of an entire title sequence.

1179
00:57:48,006 --> 00:57:50,550
Fearing he might
poison himself,

1180
00:57:50,633 --> 00:57:52,218
we moved him
to the carpentry workshop

1181
00:57:52,302 --> 00:57:53,761
on a bed of wood shavings,

1182
00:57:53,845 --> 00:57:56,097
which instantly
became his breakfast.

1183
00:57:56,181 --> 00:57:59,934
At teatime, Bullock the lamb
visits the editing rooms,

1184
00:58:00,018 --> 00:58:03,062
where he snacks on pages
and pages of scripts.

1185
00:58:03,146 --> 00:58:06,566
He nibbles the straw
off chairs, chews on pencils

1186
00:58:06,649 --> 00:58:09,194
and discarded cigarette butts.

1187
00:58:09,277 --> 00:58:11,154
So, this is soundstage three.

1188
00:58:11,237 --> 00:58:13,281
This is where
the night scenes are shot.

1189
00:58:18,119 --> 00:58:19,996
How bizarre. Hmm.

1190
00:58:23,791 --> 00:58:26,377
And what's that
contraption exactly?

1191
00:58:26,461 --> 00:58:28,171
That's the Topazette,

1192
00:58:28,254 --> 00:58:30,715
one of my brother's inventions.

1193
00:58:30,798 --> 00:58:32,675
The people's motor car.
Three wheels,

1194
00:58:32,759 --> 00:58:34,677
three seats,

1195
00:58:34,761 --> 00:58:36,471
three gears.

1196
00:58:37,889 --> 00:58:39,390
300 per gallon.

1197
00:58:39,474 --> 00:58:41,726
Test drive ended
with three rolls!

1198
00:58:41,809 --> 00:58:43,811
Who could ever resist?

1199
00:58:43,895 --> 00:58:45,855
Save me one of these,
will you? Hmm?

1200
00:58:45,939 --> 00:58:48,024
Light is on its way.

1201
00:58:48,107 --> 00:58:49,526
Keep going.

1202
00:58:50,151 --> 00:58:51,986
That's it.

1203
00:58:52,070 --> 00:58:53,696
Keep it steady, now.

1204
00:58:53,780 --> 00:58:56,866
Come on!

1205
00:58:56,950 --> 00:58:58,993
What on earth
is he doing here?

1206
00:58:59,077 --> 00:59:01,996
He's never seen a blade
of grass in his life.

1207
00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:05,124
Here, he's bound to have
his fill and more.

1208
00:59:08,586 --> 00:59:10,213
He has grass up to his knees,

1209
00:59:10,296 --> 00:59:12,757
but he prefers munching
on tree bark instead.

1210
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:14,842
Which goes to show
that education

1211
00:59:14,926 --> 00:59:17,345
can change the very nature
of a being.

1212
00:59:20,890 --> 00:59:22,475
Broquier.

1213
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:23,434
Broquier.

1214
00:59:23,518 --> 00:59:25,395
Yes, Marcel?

1215
00:59:25,478 --> 00:59:29,190
I've never been so happy
on a film shoot.

1216
00:59:29,274 --> 00:59:32,860
Back in the dry hills
with my childhood friends.

1217
00:59:32,944 --> 00:59:35,280
Like when we were 10 years old.

1218
00:59:35,363 --> 00:59:37,448
Admit it, building this village
for the film

1219
00:59:37,532 --> 00:59:39,617
was just a way
of coming back home again.

1220
00:59:39,701 --> 00:59:41,828
Here, I can almost forget

1221
00:59:41,911 --> 00:59:43,580
the troubles that await me
in Marseille.

1222
00:59:44,289 --> 00:59:45,790
Enjoy it, Marcel.

1223
00:59:45,873 --> 00:59:48,585
Beautiful things
are not meant to last.

1224
00:59:55,008 --> 00:59:56,801
Ah! Bullock!

1225
00:59:56,884 --> 01:00:00,263
You crazy beast!
You're gonna snuff it!

1226
01:00:01,139 --> 01:00:02,640
What's going on?

1227
01:00:02,724 --> 01:00:04,976
Oh. He's swallowed
a pint of plaster.

1228
01:00:05,059 --> 01:00:06,561
He's plastered up his stomach.

1229
01:00:06,644 --> 01:00:08,563
I don't know! Bring a knife.
We have to operate!

1230
01:00:24,412 --> 01:00:25,413
You're not kind.

1231
01:00:25,496 --> 01:00:28,124
No, you're not kind.

1232
01:00:28,207 --> 01:00:30,752
I slave all day at my desk
like a scrounging scrounger.

1233
01:00:30,835 --> 01:00:32,086
SCREENING ROOM

1234
01:00:32,170 --> 01:00:34,047
All day long, I calculate,

1235
01:00:34,130 --> 01:00:37,508
trying to finance my next film.

1236
01:00:37,592 --> 01:00:40,803
Lawyers, poets that they are,
wish me to go to jail,

1237
01:00:40,887 --> 01:00:43,348
while you are
the real movie makers.

1238
01:00:43,431 --> 01:00:45,224
You play hilarious tricks

1239
01:00:45,308 --> 01:00:47,060
and you never invite me.

1240
01:00:47,143 --> 01:00:49,020
Why?

1241
01:00:49,103 --> 01:00:50,855
We daren't,
Mr. Meyerboom, because...

1242
01:00:50,938 --> 01:00:53,232
I mean, because, uh...

1243
01:00:53,316 --> 01:00:56,277
Aye, because
I'm old.

1244
01:00:56,361 --> 01:00:59,155
Do you know
when a man becomes old?

1245
01:00:59,238 --> 01:01:01,783
When the youth leave him out.

1246
01:01:01,866 --> 01:01:03,576
When he can call anyone
by their first name,

1247
01:01:03,660 --> 01:01:05,953
but no one calls him by his.

1248
01:01:06,037 --> 01:01:07,789
Aren't you happy
with Heartbeat?

1249
01:01:07,872 --> 01:01:09,957
I am.
It's a good picture.

1250
01:01:10,041 --> 01:01:11,668
-Good day, gentlemen.
-Good day.

1251
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:14,837
Who is that charming damsel?

1252
01:01:14,921 --> 01:01:16,297
No idea.

1253
01:01:16,381 --> 01:01:17,674
-Good day.
-Good day.

1254
01:01:18,508 --> 01:01:20,176
So many people here.

1255
01:01:20,259 --> 01:01:23,096
I miss the small warehouse
where everything started.

1256
01:01:23,179 --> 01:01:25,098
These studios were intended
to give me freedom,

1257
01:01:25,181 --> 01:01:27,016
now they suffocate me.

1258
01:01:27,100 --> 01:01:30,520
Well, if you're suffocating,
you need to get some air.

1259
01:01:30,603 --> 01:01:32,772
A glass of anisette in one hand,

1260
01:01:32,855 --> 01:01:34,691
and a steel petanque ball
in the other.

1261
01:01:37,026 --> 01:01:39,570
-I win the point.
-Not so fast.

1262
01:01:39,654 --> 01:01:41,114
Pagnol, you can go measure it.

1263
01:01:43,491 --> 01:01:45,910
I'll play your cuckold baker,
on second thought.

1264
01:01:45,993 --> 01:01:47,745
So why did you change your mind?

1265
01:01:47,829 --> 01:01:50,123
Because your business
needs to be profitable,

1266
01:01:50,206 --> 01:01:51,874
and I'm your friend.

1267
01:01:51,958 --> 01:01:54,210
I think you just don't want
to let Fernandel have the role.

1268
01:01:54,293 --> 01:01:55,837
Foolishness!

1269
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:57,672
On top of being a cuckold,

1270
01:01:57,755 --> 01:02:00,383
your baker would have
a horse's face.

1271
01:02:00,466 --> 01:02:03,803
Yes! He might well
have a horse's face,

1272
01:02:03,886 --> 01:02:06,180
but that's still better
than the mug

1273
01:02:06,264 --> 01:02:08,975
of a tramp from the dry hills.

1274
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,068
You're suffocating me, Marcel.

1275
01:02:19,152 --> 01:02:21,988
I can't take any more
of your jealousy. You know what?

1276
01:02:22,071 --> 01:02:23,614
I'm leaving!

1277
01:02:23,698 --> 01:02:24,907
No, Josette!

1278
01:02:26,868 --> 01:02:28,995
My friend, reassure me.

1279
01:02:29,078 --> 01:02:31,247
Tell me that
the cuckold baker isn't you.

1280
01:02:33,332 --> 01:02:36,169
Jules, I'm passionately in love.

1281
01:02:36,252 --> 01:02:39,046
Oh, that's a recipe
for suffering, all right.

1282
01:02:39,130 --> 01:02:41,257
So, at my age,
I'm not entitled to true love?

1283
01:02:41,340 --> 01:02:42,842
Of course you are.

1284
01:02:42,925 --> 01:02:45,678
But keep spreading yourself thin
and you'll end up alone.

1285
01:02:45,762 --> 01:02:48,014
Instead of your
passionate love affairs,

1286
01:02:48,097 --> 01:02:52,435
you'd best bank on modest love
that consumes itself slowly.

1287
01:02:52,518 --> 01:02:54,645
Believe me. Solitude at our age

1288
01:02:54,729 --> 01:02:56,981
is the worst thing
that can happen to a man.

1289
01:02:58,107 --> 01:03:00,943
That's right. So right.

1290
01:03:01,027 --> 01:03:03,571
Come on! Are we
shooting this film or not?

1291
01:03:03,654 --> 01:03:05,156
What are you waiting for?

1292
01:03:05,239 --> 01:03:07,533
For your fake tree to melt
under the spotlights?

1293
01:03:08,743 --> 01:03:10,411
Look who's here.

1294
01:03:10,495 --> 01:03:13,581
Look at her! You see
her slinking back in?

1295
01:03:13,664 --> 01:03:16,334
Pomponette. Eh?

1296
01:03:16,417 --> 01:03:18,169
You whore.

1297
01:03:18,252 --> 01:03:19,378
Trollop.

1298
01:03:19,462 --> 01:03:20,963
Dirty wench.

1299
01:03:21,923 --> 01:03:24,717
Finally wandered home, eh?

1300
01:03:24,801 --> 01:03:27,428
What about poor old Tomcat?

1301
01:03:27,512 --> 01:03:29,263
He worried himself
sick yesterday.

1302
01:03:29,347 --> 01:03:31,057
So I can't leave
for just three days

1303
01:03:31,140 --> 01:03:32,433
without you making a scene!

1304
01:03:32,517 --> 01:03:35,102
-I was at a girlfriend's.
-Of course.

1305
01:03:35,186 --> 01:03:36,896
I can't breathe,
Marcel!

1306
01:03:36,979 --> 01:03:38,481
Hitler's invaded Poland...

1307
01:03:38,564 --> 01:03:39,982
Leave Hitler out of it!

1308
01:03:40,066 --> 01:03:42,276
We're at war!
And instead of comforting me,

1309
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:45,029
all you can think about
is locking me up in Marseille.

1310
01:03:45,112 --> 01:03:46,739
I'm so bored here.

1311
01:03:46,823 --> 01:03:48,866
I'm an actress,
I live for my work,

1312
01:03:48,950 --> 01:03:50,660
and your studios are shut.

1313
01:03:50,743 --> 01:03:52,703
My staff have all been enlisted.

1314
01:03:52,787 --> 01:03:53,663
I'm losing my mind!

1315
01:03:53,746 --> 01:03:55,456
Calm down.

1316
01:03:55,540 --> 01:03:56,958
I've thought of a role for you,

1317
01:03:57,041 --> 01:03:58,668
for when Fernandel
is back on leave.

1318
01:03:58,751 --> 01:04:00,837
A role? What role?

1319
01:04:02,129 --> 01:04:03,297
And cut! That's a wrap.

1320
01:04:03,381 --> 01:04:05,925
AUDIO SERVICE

1321
01:04:06,008 --> 01:04:08,010
Well done.

1322
01:04:08,094 --> 01:04:10,137
The front
on River Somme has yielded...

1323
01:04:11,597 --> 01:04:13,474
The army's been routed.

1324
01:04:13,558 --> 01:04:15,142
Before long,
we'll be seeing the Krauts

1325
01:04:15,226 --> 01:04:16,978
marching through Marseille.

1326
01:04:17,061 --> 01:04:18,771
Should we continue
shooting the film?

1327
01:04:18,855 --> 01:04:21,899
Keep your head on, Marcel,
don't get carried away.

1328
01:04:21,983 --> 01:04:24,569
Imagine the worst
were to happen.

1329
01:04:24,652 --> 01:04:26,195
Doesn't moral duty dictate

1330
01:04:26,279 --> 01:04:29,699
we continue
fearlessly doing our job?

1331
01:04:29,782 --> 01:04:33,536
Our ancestors, the Gauls...
Our ancestors.

1332
01:04:35,872 --> 01:04:36,706
EARTH

1333
01:04:40,585 --> 01:04:42,253
Oh, my!

1334
01:04:42,336 --> 01:04:45,298
Oh, my!

1335
01:04:45,381 --> 01:04:50,094
But why is
Mussolini killing our children?

1336
01:04:50,177 --> 01:04:53,139
They are the flesh and blood
of Italy,

1337
01:04:53,222 --> 01:04:55,266
just like him!

1338
01:04:55,349 --> 01:04:57,268
Monster!

1339
01:04:57,351 --> 01:04:59,604
Monster!

1340
01:05:02,315 --> 01:05:03,691
It is
with a heavy heart

1341
01:05:03,774 --> 01:05:05,318
that I tell you today

1342
01:05:05,401 --> 01:05:07,612
that we must cease combat.

1343
01:05:07,695 --> 01:05:10,531
I spoke last night
to our adversary,

1344
01:05:10,615 --> 01:05:13,993
asking him if he is prepared
to seek with me,

1345
01:05:14,076 --> 01:05:15,912
soldier-to-soldier,

1346
01:05:15,995 --> 01:05:18,247
the battlefield
honorably appeased,

1347
01:05:18,331 --> 01:05:22,043
a means of putting
an end to hostilities.

1348
01:05:22,126 --> 01:05:23,961
I ask that all Frenchmen...

1349
01:05:24,045 --> 01:05:24,879
...unite around
the government

1350
01:05:24,962 --> 01:05:26,547
over which I preside

1351
01:05:26,631 --> 01:05:30,217
during these trying times,
and allay their fears,

1352
01:05:30,301 --> 01:05:34,138
heeding only their faith
in the future of our nation.

1353
01:05:34,221 --> 01:05:36,849
This is intolerable!

1354
01:05:36,933 --> 01:05:39,769
The instructions you were given
were to include sentiments

1355
01:05:39,852 --> 01:05:41,812
in keeping
with our National Revolution.

1356
01:05:41,896 --> 01:05:44,523
Marshal Petain is not
the bogeyman, for God's sake.

1357
01:05:44,607 --> 01:05:48,486
He's not hell-bent
on making the French cry!

1358
01:05:48,569 --> 01:05:51,113
It seems to me he would've
painted her head even larger.

1359
01:05:52,281 --> 01:05:53,991
What is this?

1360
01:05:54,075 --> 01:05:56,869
They're no longer selling
The Well-Digger's Daughter,

1361
01:05:56,953 --> 01:05:59,622
they're selling "Snow White
and the Two Dwarves"!

1362
01:05:59,705 --> 01:06:01,457
Careful now, Pagnol.

1363
01:06:01,540 --> 01:06:03,209
It's said that love is blind.

1364
01:06:03,292 --> 01:06:06,253
In your case,
it's already shortsighted.

1365
01:06:06,337 --> 01:06:08,297
The film is doing well
in the Free Zone.

1366
01:06:08,381 --> 01:06:11,217
But in Paris,
the Germans simply banned it.

1367
01:06:11,300 --> 01:06:14,011
Mr. Pagnol,
a German is asking for you.

1368
01:06:18,349 --> 01:06:20,977
-Nothing good can come of this.
-He does like dogs, though.

1369
01:06:21,060 --> 01:06:22,561
Hitler loves dogs too.

1370
01:06:23,521 --> 01:06:25,064
This way, gentlemen.

1371
01:06:25,147 --> 01:06:26,315
OFFICE

1372
01:06:26,399 --> 01:06:28,275
Pagnol!

1373
01:06:28,359 --> 01:06:31,112
-You are a true love of mine.
-Is that so?

1374
01:06:31,195 --> 01:06:34,240
I speak of my literary
and poetic love.

1375
01:06:34,323 --> 01:06:36,117
I certainly hope as much.

1376
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,703
Come now,
do you not recognize me?

1377
01:06:38,786 --> 01:06:40,830
Alfred, Alfred Greven.

1378
01:06:40,913 --> 01:06:42,748
We were in Berlin in '31

1379
01:06:42,832 --> 01:06:44,667
for the 200th performance
of Marius.

1380
01:06:44,750 --> 01:06:46,168
You do remember?

1381
01:06:46,252 --> 01:06:48,045
To what do I owe your visit?

1382
01:06:48,129 --> 01:06:51,841
I am director of German cinema
for Europe at large.

1383
01:06:51,924 --> 01:06:54,677
French cinema is no longer
controlled by the Jews.

1384
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:57,096
They have all departed.

1385
01:06:57,179 --> 01:07:00,433
You and me are going to reinvent
the cinema of France.

1386
01:07:00,516 --> 01:07:03,060
And for that to happen,
you will leave your studios

1387
01:07:03,144 --> 01:07:05,354
and come to Paris
to manage our studios.

1388
01:07:05,438 --> 01:07:07,440
I'm sorry,
I can't leave Marseille.

1389
01:07:07,523 --> 01:07:09,025
I can't abandon my staff.

1390
01:07:10,735 --> 01:07:13,571
What a pity that is.

1391
01:07:13,654 --> 01:07:16,115
Once you have changed your mind,
come and see me in Paris.

1392
01:07:18,451 --> 01:07:19,952
The Jerries
are sure to lose the war!

1393
01:07:20,036 --> 01:07:22,747
I give a year
before they're all kaput.

1394
01:07:22,830 --> 01:07:24,373
Hey, do you hear that?

1395
01:07:24,457 --> 01:07:27,710
She may be an expert on fish,
but that's about it.

1396
01:07:27,793 --> 01:07:30,171
The Reich claims
victory after victory.

1397
01:07:30,254 --> 01:07:31,714
If you don't want to work
for Greven,

1398
01:07:31,797 --> 01:07:33,215
you best go into hiding.

1399
01:07:34,133 --> 01:07:35,468
I'd rather die!

1400
01:07:35,551 --> 01:07:36,886
And cut!

1401
01:07:36,969 --> 01:07:39,388
What's
the problem now?

1402
01:07:39,472 --> 01:07:41,098
Film perforations are off.

1403
01:07:41,182 --> 01:07:42,308
It's the only stock
I could find.

1404
01:07:42,391 --> 01:07:43,559
You'll have to make do!

1405
01:07:43,642 --> 01:07:44,769
And the lights
and the sound rigs

1406
01:07:44,852 --> 01:07:46,520
hardly work at all.

1407
01:07:46,604 --> 01:07:48,147
Well, then you'll have
to fix them as best you can.

1408
01:07:48,230 --> 01:07:49,899
Tell me when I'm on.

1409
01:07:49,982 --> 01:07:51,901
Yes, dear, it shouldn't be long.

1410
01:07:54,403 --> 01:07:55,905
If everything
has to be fiddled with,

1411
01:07:55,988 --> 01:07:57,740
we'll be in such deep shit.

1412
01:07:57,823 --> 01:08:00,451
The shit, Rene, gets deeper
if we stop shooting.

1413
01:08:00,534 --> 01:08:02,161
-Mr. Pagnol.
-What now?

1414
01:08:02,244 --> 01:08:03,079
Mr. Greven.

1415
01:08:06,791 --> 01:08:08,292
I would love
to give you my pictures,

1416
01:08:08,375 --> 01:08:09,919
but you won't be able
to screen them,

1417
01:08:10,002 --> 01:08:11,587
the film is damaged.

1418
01:08:11,670 --> 01:08:13,923
I would like to see a reel
of "Prayer to the Stars,"

1419
01:08:14,006 --> 01:08:15,549
if you will permit me.

1420
01:08:15,633 --> 01:08:17,760
Very well.
I can show you 20 reels,

1421
01:08:17,843 --> 01:08:19,678
if that's what you want.

1422
01:08:19,762 --> 01:08:22,348
Bring me
the worst of the lot. All right?

1423
01:08:22,431 --> 01:08:24,934
Well, we can lead
her to believe we are engaged.

1424
01:08:25,017 --> 01:08:27,436
She'll give us a detailed
account of our past,

1425
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:29,396
wish us much happiness
and many children.

1426
01:08:29,480 --> 01:08:30,940
Yes, yes. Thank you.

1427
01:08:34,693 --> 01:08:36,153
We can't carry on like this.

1428
01:08:42,576 --> 01:08:43,702
Why don't you
leave Pagnol alone?

1429
01:08:49,542 --> 01:08:51,919
- Who are you?
- I am Marcel!

1430
01:08:53,671 --> 01:08:54,588
Marcel Pagnol!

1431
01:08:56,882 --> 01:08:58,134
What is happening?

1432
01:08:58,217 --> 01:08:59,135
Mr. Greven?

1433
01:09:06,684 --> 01:09:08,144
At times
you hate me, Florence.

1434
01:09:09,687 --> 01:09:11,147
And I cannot fathom why.

1435
01:09:13,149 --> 01:09:16,735
How can one love somebody
who doesn't love back?

1436
01:09:16,819 --> 01:09:19,405
How can one be loved
by somebody you don't love?

1437
01:09:21,115 --> 01:09:22,783
It's the cruelest of mysteries.

1438
01:09:28,914 --> 01:09:31,709
Mr. Bailiff, sir,
write up your report.

1439
01:09:33,878 --> 01:09:35,296
"Prayer to the Stars."

1440
01:09:35,379 --> 01:09:37,673
"Prayer to the Stars"
will never be German!

1441
01:09:44,889 --> 01:09:46,849
Do you know about Josette?

1442
01:09:46,932 --> 01:09:48,475
What, Josette again?

1443
01:09:48,559 --> 01:09:50,895
She left me.

1444
01:09:50,978 --> 01:09:53,856
She couldn't bear the fact
that I destroyed her film.

1445
01:09:53,939 --> 01:09:55,191
Her film.

1446
01:10:00,905 --> 01:10:03,073
You need to call Gaumont.
We're selling.

1447
01:10:03,157 --> 01:10:04,241
Are you sure?

1448
01:10:04,325 --> 01:10:05,367
I'm sure.

1449
01:10:17,379 --> 01:10:18,797
Something wrong,
Mr. Pagnol?

1450
01:10:22,927 --> 01:10:25,429
That's when
I stopped following you.

1451
01:10:25,512 --> 01:10:28,724
And that's when
I lost myself.

1452
01:10:28,807 --> 01:10:31,101
In the midst of a war
that was dragging on,

1453
01:10:31,185 --> 01:10:32,311
I would have needed a miracle.

1454
01:10:33,103 --> 01:10:34,438
But I'd given up hope.

1455
01:10:39,985 --> 01:10:42,905
And time went by,
spinning the wheel of life

1456
01:10:42,988 --> 01:10:45,157
like water spins the mill.

1457
01:10:45,241 --> 01:10:47,868
Is it fixed?
Well done, Pagnol boys!

1458
01:10:47,952 --> 01:10:49,245
And that's not all.

1459
01:10:54,708 --> 01:10:57,211
The mill is finally
going to have electricity.

1460
01:10:57,294 --> 01:10:59,380
-Are you serious?
-You don't believe me?

1461
01:10:59,463 --> 01:11:00,297
Come.

1462
01:11:03,050 --> 01:11:04,260
This way.

1463
01:11:05,844 --> 01:11:08,264
Jacqueline, you do the honors.

1464
01:11:11,684 --> 01:11:14,311
As of now, you can read
without straining your eyes.

1465
01:11:16,855 --> 01:11:18,274
- Does it work?
- Mm-hmm.

1466
01:11:21,068 --> 01:11:22,695
...since dawn this morning,

1467
01:11:22,778 --> 01:11:25,281
the Allied troops have freed
the city of Bayeux

1468
01:11:25,364 --> 01:11:27,950
and are now headed for Caen.

1469
01:11:28,033 --> 01:11:31,578
Normandy is currently the
theater of a colossal landing,

1470
01:11:31,662 --> 01:11:34,373
which will determine
France's future.

1471
01:11:43,424 --> 01:11:45,801
That sound makes
my blood run cold.

1472
01:11:45,884 --> 01:11:48,429
It's the sound
of freedom, Jacqueline.

1473
01:11:48,512 --> 01:11:51,390
What will we do
when all this is over?

1474
01:11:51,473 --> 01:11:53,767
You'll get on
with your young, budding life,

1475
01:11:53,851 --> 01:11:55,644
and become a great actress.

1476
01:11:55,728 --> 01:11:57,479
And you?

1477
01:11:57,563 --> 01:12:00,399
I'll get on with my old,
waning life.

1478
01:12:00,482 --> 01:12:01,942
You say you're old, Marcel,

1479
01:12:02,026 --> 01:12:04,278
but the gleam in your eyes
betrays your youth.

1480
01:12:04,361 --> 01:12:07,156
So we'll both get on
with our young lives together.

1481
01:12:08,115 --> 01:12:09,867
I'd stopped believing.

1482
01:12:09,950 --> 01:12:11,410
That the war would end?

1483
01:12:11,493 --> 01:12:12,870
That I'd find you.

1484
01:12:38,896 --> 01:12:39,980
Very well, gentlemen.

1485
01:12:40,064 --> 01:12:41,440
You want some heads to roll.

1486
01:12:41,523 --> 01:12:42,858
SOCIETY OF DRAMATIC AUTHORS
AND COMPOSERS

1487
01:12:42,941 --> 01:12:44,193
But to judge
and sentence your neighbor,

1488
01:12:44,276 --> 01:12:46,278
you must be
faultless yourselves.

1489
01:12:46,362 --> 01:12:48,030
Would those amongst you
who rescued Jews

1490
01:12:48,113 --> 01:12:49,365
please raise your hands?

1491
01:12:53,952 --> 01:12:56,705
Hmm. I rest my case.

1492
01:12:56,789 --> 01:12:59,416
This Liberation
is off to a pitiful start.

1493
01:12:59,500 --> 01:13:02,002
France has signed a trade
agreement with the Americans.

1494
01:13:02,086 --> 01:13:03,879
Where's the harm in that?

1495
01:13:03,962 --> 01:13:06,507
The French government are trying
to obtain corn and petrol.

1496
01:13:06,590 --> 01:13:07,841
It's quite commendable.

1497
01:13:07,925 --> 01:13:09,635
But in exchange,

1498
01:13:09,718 --> 01:13:12,096
they are now letting Hollywood
productions invade our cinemas.

1499
01:13:12,179 --> 01:13:14,723
And so?

1500
01:13:14,807 --> 01:13:18,435
So that seals the fate
of our film industry.

1501
01:13:18,519 --> 01:13:20,729
Fancy words
for a simple trade agreement!

1502
01:13:22,481 --> 01:13:26,485
Minister, the Americans wish
to Americanize France.

1503
01:13:26,568 --> 01:13:29,071
If we're to be flooded
with American films,

1504
01:13:29,154 --> 01:13:31,198
10 years from now, our people

1505
01:13:31,281 --> 01:13:33,283
will idolize Hollywood actors.

1506
01:13:33,367 --> 01:13:35,869
Those picture-perfect
gumchewers,

1507
01:13:35,953 --> 01:13:38,080
slapping and slugging
left, right and center,

1508
01:13:38,163 --> 01:13:40,833
will soon be role models
for our children.

1509
01:13:42,918 --> 01:13:44,420
And then, they'll think

1510
01:13:44,503 --> 01:13:46,338
like Americans...

1511
01:13:46,422 --> 01:13:49,049
...they'll love like Americans,

1512
01:13:49,133 --> 01:13:50,884
they'll dress like Americans.

1513
01:13:50,968 --> 01:13:52,010
Hey! All right!

1514
01:13:53,679 --> 01:13:56,723
They'll eat like Americans...

1515
01:13:56,807 --> 01:13:58,684
...they'll speak
like Americans...

1516
01:14:00,436 --> 01:14:02,146
And once they've lost
their own language...

1517
01:14:05,357 --> 01:14:07,359
Tell me, then,
what should we do?

1518
01:14:15,033 --> 01:14:17,911
We shall tax
American films to finance ours.

1519
01:14:17,995 --> 01:14:20,873
French cinema has
bought itself some time.

1520
01:14:20,956 --> 01:14:23,041
Will you start shooting again?

1521
01:14:23,125 --> 01:14:24,918
Give me one good reason
why I should.

1522
01:14:25,002 --> 01:14:26,128
You love me.

1523
01:14:26,211 --> 01:14:27,921
An excellent reason.

1524
01:14:28,005 --> 01:14:30,090
And you'll soon have
one reason more.

1525
01:14:30,924 --> 01:14:32,009
No!

1526
01:14:35,137 --> 01:14:36,597
My dear little Frederic.

1527
01:14:40,142 --> 01:14:42,811
We wish you
the warmest of welcomes, my boy.

1528
01:14:49,902 --> 01:14:51,612
Farewell, my friend.

1529
01:14:51,695 --> 01:14:54,364
HERE LIES JULES MURAIRE
KNOWN AS RAIMU 1883 - 1946

1530
01:15:00,704 --> 01:15:03,165
Don't mope,
you silly sod.

1531
01:15:03,248 --> 01:15:04,750
You still have my films.

1532
01:15:04,833 --> 01:15:07,127
I'll keep my place
on the silver screen,

1533
01:15:07,211 --> 01:15:09,338
making crowds laugh and cry.

1534
01:15:09,421 --> 01:15:12,174
I'll just carry on
bravely doing my job.

1535
01:15:13,091 --> 01:15:15,135
And you'll do just the same.

1536
01:15:15,219 --> 01:15:17,429
You can be grateful, Marcel.

1537
01:15:17,513 --> 01:15:19,389
Grateful to this magic lantern,

1538
01:15:19,473 --> 01:15:21,558
lighting lost geniuses anew,

1539
01:15:21,642 --> 01:15:24,353
bringing deceased dancers
back to the dance,

1540
01:15:24,436 --> 01:15:26,313
and returning to our affections

1541
01:15:26,396 --> 01:15:28,524
the smiles
of long-lost friends.

1542
01:15:33,028 --> 01:15:34,947
Darling,
a registered letter for you.

1543
01:15:35,030 --> 01:15:38,742
Well, well,
what's this now?

1544
01:15:38,825 --> 01:15:41,912
Likely the Roux brothers again,
selling their new color process.

1545
01:15:41,995 --> 01:15:43,789
There is mention of green.

1546
01:15:43,872 --> 01:15:44,915
Green-breasted jacket!

1547
01:15:44,998 --> 01:15:46,792
Green?

1548
01:15:46,875 --> 01:15:49,836
Oh, Marcel!

1549
01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:51,964
Good thing Raimu
isn't around to see this.

1550
01:15:52,047 --> 01:15:53,215
Really, why?

1551
01:15:53,298 --> 01:15:55,300
He really would've
taken the piss.

1552
01:15:55,384 --> 01:15:56,885
"Mr. Know-it-all!

1553
01:15:56,969 --> 01:15:59,930
"All you were missing
was the green outfit.

1554
01:16:00,013 --> 01:16:02,683
"Congratulations,
you overblown pompous arse!

1555
01:16:02,766 --> 01:16:05,394
"You're now officially
an old geezer."

1556
01:16:05,477 --> 01:16:06,979
Your father dreamt of this.

1557
01:16:07,062 --> 01:16:09,773
Remember how he strove to obtain
the Academic Palms.

1558
01:16:09,856 --> 01:16:10,774
Think how proud he is.

1559
01:16:13,777 --> 01:16:16,196
You are now
what we call an "immortal."

1560
01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:18,574
Oh.
Well, it's all relative.

1561
01:16:18,657 --> 01:16:20,075
More Academy members

1562
01:16:20,158 --> 01:16:22,286
are pushing up daisies
than gracing these halls.

1563
01:16:22,369 --> 01:16:24,371
Given the choice,
I'd much rather

1564
01:16:24,454 --> 01:16:26,373
be immortal whilst I'm alive.

1565
01:16:26,456 --> 01:16:29,543
After the war, you didn't plan
on coming back to film work.

1566
01:16:29,626 --> 01:16:31,503
And yet I did.

1567
01:16:31,587 --> 01:16:35,882
First of all, there was Nais,
released in 1945.

1568
01:16:35,966 --> 01:16:38,260
If Frederic can leave here

1569
01:16:38,343 --> 01:16:39,886
without being hurt...

1570
01:16:39,970 --> 01:16:41,471
Mummy!

1571
01:16:41,555 --> 01:16:44,266
And if you want me,
I'll be yours.

1572
01:16:44,349 --> 01:16:47,269
Nais, if I want you how?

1573
01:16:47,352 --> 01:16:49,688
-As a wife?
-Well, as whatever you like.

1574
01:16:49,771 --> 01:16:53,108
You then directed
La Belle Meuniere,

1575
01:16:53,191 --> 01:16:55,861
a film that struggled
to find its audience.

1576
01:16:55,944 --> 01:16:58,280
I wanted to make
a film in color,

1577
01:16:58,363 --> 01:17:00,991
using a French process,
the Rouxcolor,

1578
01:17:01,074 --> 01:17:03,118
to avoid paying a fortune
to Technicolor,

1579
01:17:03,201 --> 01:17:03,910
who held the monopoly.

1580
01:17:05,454 --> 01:17:07,122
It was such a momentous failure

1581
01:17:07,205 --> 01:17:08,915
that it's best
left unmentioned.

1582
01:17:08,999 --> 01:17:11,543
Then please tell me
about your latest success,

1583
01:17:11,627 --> 01:17:13,128
Manon des Sources.

1584
01:17:13,211 --> 01:17:14,129
Oh, Manon...

1585
01:17:15,213 --> 01:17:17,007
I wrote it for my wife.

1586
01:17:17,090 --> 01:17:18,550
She'd just given me
the greatest gift

1587
01:17:18,634 --> 01:17:20,469
a man can receive from a woman.

1588
01:17:20,552 --> 01:17:22,929
A godsend
by the name of Estelle.

1589
01:17:23,013 --> 01:17:24,765
They're as like
as two peas in a pod.

1590
01:17:24,848 --> 01:17:26,850
I've studied
the soil composition.

1591
01:17:26,933 --> 01:17:28,644
If we dig right here,

1592
01:17:28,727 --> 01:17:30,479
then I assure you
we will find uranium.

1593
01:17:30,562 --> 01:17:32,356
Uranium, you say?

1594
01:17:32,439 --> 01:17:34,524
Or crude oil,
if we dig even deeper.

1595
01:17:35,692 --> 01:17:37,361
It's water you're digging for.

1596
01:17:37,444 --> 01:17:38,779
I'm not letting you dig up

1597
01:17:38,862 --> 01:17:40,656
our patch of paradise
for anything else.

1598
01:17:42,407 --> 01:17:44,910
Marcel, I'm warning you!

1599
01:17:44,993 --> 01:17:47,663
Strong-minded woman
you got yourself there.

1600
01:17:47,746 --> 01:17:49,706
You'd be well-advised
to find her that wellspring.

1601
01:17:51,625 --> 01:17:54,544
Very good, Frederic.

1602
01:17:54,628 --> 01:17:56,672
Oh, Estelle.

1603
01:17:58,632 --> 01:18:02,094
Don't be afraid, Manon.
I won't come near you again.

1604
01:18:02,177 --> 01:18:04,846
I love you.
It's the truth, I love you.

1605
01:18:04,930 --> 01:18:07,182
That makes me sick!

1606
01:18:07,265 --> 01:18:09,184
I don't believe you.
You're just being stubborn!

1607
01:18:09,267 --> 01:18:11,186
You're as headstrong
as one of your goats!

1608
01:18:11,269 --> 01:18:13,605
But I mean what I say,
I love you!

1609
01:18:13,689 --> 01:18:16,316
I'm the one who howls
into the vale every night!

1610
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:18,610
Please stop, it frightens me.

1611
01:18:18,694 --> 01:18:21,488
Have you ever considered
writing novels?

1612
01:18:21,571 --> 01:18:23,323
I would be at a loss.

1613
01:18:23,407 --> 01:18:25,742
I tell all my stories
through the filter of dialogue.

1614
01:18:26,660 --> 01:18:28,286
Papa, Papa!

1615
01:18:28,370 --> 01:18:31,540
Estelle,
my precious little elf.

1616
01:18:31,623 --> 01:18:33,375
Are you cutting the olive tree?

1617
01:18:33,458 --> 01:18:36,753
What in the world?
It's 2,000 years old.

1618
01:18:36,837 --> 01:18:38,380
Jesus could have tasted
its olives.

1619
01:18:38,463 --> 01:18:39,923
Who's Jesus?

1620
01:18:40,006 --> 01:18:42,175
Jesus is the neighbor's cat.

1621
01:18:42,259 --> 01:18:45,721
Oh, yes,
cats really like olives.

1622
01:18:45,804 --> 01:18:47,556
You two!
I'd be well inspired

1623
01:18:47,639 --> 01:18:50,058
to hire you as dialogue writers.

1624
01:18:50,142 --> 01:18:52,644
What about
children's books?

1625
01:18:52,728 --> 01:18:54,938
Oh, I doubt very much
that my stories

1626
01:18:55,021 --> 01:18:56,773
about cuckolds
and unwed mothers

1627
01:18:56,857 --> 01:18:59,693
would be of great interest
to little boys and girls.

1628
01:18:59,776 --> 01:19:03,405
My daughter, however, she loves
when I write her poems.

1629
01:19:03,488 --> 01:19:06,158
Tell me about the film
you're currently making.

1630
01:19:06,241 --> 01:19:07,701
Ah!

1631
01:19:07,784 --> 01:19:09,369
-"Les Lettres de mon moulin."
-Mm-hmm.

1632
01:19:09,453 --> 01:19:09,870
I'm going back
to the South this evening.

1633
01:19:09,953 --> 01:19:10,996
And cut!

1634
01:19:11,079 --> 01:19:12,664
I can't wait to join my crew.

1635
01:19:13,415 --> 01:19:14,583
See here...

1636
01:19:14,666 --> 01:19:16,418
Mr. Pagnol, a telegram for you.

1637
01:19:17,169 --> 01:19:18,170
Oh.

1638
01:19:22,257 --> 01:19:24,593
Is something wrong, Marcel?

1639
01:19:24,676 --> 01:19:26,553
My daughter is in hospital.

1640
01:19:26,636 --> 01:19:28,013
I must go home to Monaco.

1641
01:19:34,186 --> 01:19:36,188
Doctor.

1642
01:19:36,271 --> 01:19:39,065
She has suffered
a severe ketosis attack.

1643
01:19:39,149 --> 01:19:40,776
But she's going to get better?

1644
01:19:43,361 --> 01:19:44,196
No!

1645
01:19:45,572 --> 01:19:47,199
No!

1646
01:19:51,077 --> 01:19:53,205
It occurred to me
that the stars above

1647
01:19:53,288 --> 01:19:55,832
had never heard the song
of the cicadas.

1648
01:19:55,916 --> 01:19:57,876
If I'd been able
to catch you one,

1649
01:19:57,959 --> 01:20:00,462
I would have brought it
to your room.

1650
01:20:00,545 --> 01:20:03,799
Leaning out of your window,
into the dead of night,

1651
01:20:03,882 --> 01:20:06,718
I would have tickled its belly,

1652
01:20:06,802 --> 01:20:09,638
and the sky itself
would have started to dance.

1653
01:20:29,282 --> 01:20:30,325
MOVERS

1654
01:20:34,538 --> 01:20:35,497
Put the desk here.

1655
01:20:37,374 --> 01:20:39,835
Now I have to give this piece
of furniture a purpose.

1656
01:20:45,924 --> 01:20:47,843
Life can be a monstrosity.

1657
01:20:49,052 --> 01:20:52,264
But you do have
to keep on living.

1658
01:20:52,347 --> 01:20:54,724
Ladies and gentlemen,
the author of Fabien,

1659
01:20:54,808 --> 01:20:56,601
Mr. Marcel Pagnol!

1660
01:20:59,646 --> 01:21:01,439
It's stopped.

1661
01:21:01,523 --> 01:21:02,899
Not to worry.

1662
01:21:02,983 --> 01:21:04,943
Because this up here
has started again.

1663
01:21:05,026 --> 01:21:06,069
Here we go, Marcel.

1664
01:21:07,779 --> 01:21:08,989
I'm listening.

1665
01:21:09,072 --> 01:21:10,907
I was born...

1666
01:21:10,991 --> 01:21:13,076
I was born
in the town of Aubagne,

1667
01:21:13,159 --> 01:21:15,704
under the goat-scattered
Garlaban,

1668
01:21:15,787 --> 01:21:18,206
in the days
of the last great herds.

1669
01:21:18,290 --> 01:21:21,710
Garlaban is an enormous tower
of blue rock,

1670
01:21:21,793 --> 01:21:25,255
crowned by the Eagle's Plateau.

1671
01:21:25,338 --> 01:21:27,757
My father was the
fifth child of a stonemason

1672
01:21:27,841 --> 01:21:30,385
from Valreas, near Orange.

1673
01:21:30,468 --> 01:21:32,095
As soon as he had a day off,

1674
01:21:32,178 --> 01:21:34,598
that is five or six times
a year,

1675
01:21:34,681 --> 01:21:36,308
he took the family to picnic
on the grass.

1676
01:21:39,769 --> 01:21:41,313
My Father's Glory

1677
01:21:41,396 --> 01:21:42,731
My Mother's Castle

1678
01:21:42,814 --> 01:21:44,566
The Time of Love

1679
01:21:44,649 --> 01:21:46,568
The Time of Secrets

1680
01:21:57,621 --> 01:21:59,456
Massed
on the side of the road,

1681
01:21:59,539 --> 01:22:02,208
the people of Marseille have
come to pay a final tribute

1682
01:22:02,292 --> 01:22:04,502
to the tremendous author.

1683
01:22:04,586 --> 01:22:06,212
Marcel Pagnol shall rest

1684
01:22:06,296 --> 01:22:08,798
in the small cemetery
of La Treille,

1685
01:22:08,882 --> 01:22:11,468
alongside his parents,
his brother Paul,

1686
01:22:11,551 --> 01:22:13,595
and his daughter Estelle.

1687
01:22:13,678 --> 01:22:16,556
On his tombstone,
he had the Latin engraved,

1688
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:20,560
"Fontes, amicos uxorem delixit."

1689
01:22:20,644 --> 01:22:24,272
He loved springs,
his friends and his wife.

1690
01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:31,363
Ah! There you are!
Everyone's waiting, Marcel.

1691
01:22:34,074 --> 01:22:36,701
They found it,
your perpetual motion.

1692
01:22:41,289 --> 01:22:43,166
You see,
a man who writes

1693
01:22:43,249 --> 01:22:45,752
is a man who consoles himself.

1694
01:22:45,835 --> 01:22:47,837
"What of?" you might ask.

1695
01:22:47,921 --> 01:22:50,048
Not having someone to talk to.

1696
01:22:50,131 --> 01:22:52,133
So, I talk to my quill pen.

1697
01:22:53,343 --> 01:22:55,470
I can't help it.

1698
01:22:55,553 --> 01:22:58,598
And as soon as I start talking
to my quill pen, well,

1699
01:22:58,682 --> 01:23:00,183
I'm suddenly in good company.

1700
01:23:02,560 --> 01:23:05,605
I speak to my loved ones,
the living and the dead,

1701
01:23:05,689 --> 01:23:08,108
to all those I've loved.

1702
01:23:08,191 --> 01:23:11,695
They're there, by my side,
in the flesh,

1703
01:23:11,778 --> 01:23:15,323
down to the faintest smile,
the slightest intonation.

1704
01:23:15,407 --> 01:23:16,700
Pencil case

1705
01:23:16,783 --> 01:23:18,410
Often I laugh with them,

1706
01:23:18,493 --> 01:23:20,203
at times I even weep.

1707
01:23:21,955 --> 01:23:24,708
And don't you say
I'll soon be 80 years of age.

1708
01:23:24,791 --> 01:23:27,168
No. I am a boy of 12.

1709
01:23:27,252 --> 01:23:29,713
I've been in secondary school
for a year,

1710
01:23:29,796 --> 01:23:31,840
with my whole life ahead of me.